Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

An octopus, much like a chameleon, has the ability to change its skin color. Common belief has long stood that an octopus will change its color in relation to its surroundings in order to prevent ...

In a delightful encounter along a beach in Wales, marine enthusiasts were treated to a rare sighting of a curled octopus. The captivating footage, captured by Ciara Taylor, a project assistant for the ...

If you've ever wondered what goes on in the minds of ocean creatures, this discovery might make your jaw drop. Scientists ...

PBS has released a fascinating video clip from an upcoming documentary which shows an octopus changing color multiple times in its sleep. The sequence features in Octopus: Making Contact, which will ...

Octopuses can flip from mottled rock to smooth sand in less time than it takes a human to blink, yet their eyes carry only a single visual pigment that should make them functionally colorblind. The ...

Professor David Scheel managed to capture a breathtaking sequence on video. The video, which was shared as part of Nature on PBS, showcases how octopus dream. In it, we get to see a color-changing ...

We don’t know if androids dream of electric sheep, but whatever octopuses dream of must be something adventurous because they change color a lot while they’re sleeping. And while the octopus in the ...

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The octopus is one of the coolest animals in the sea. For starters, they are invertebrates. That means they don’t have backbones like humans, lions, turtles, and birds. That may sound unusual, but ...

Scientists have created a new light-activated ink that can change color on demand. It’s made up of microbeads of different colors that rise or sink in response to different wavelengths of light so ...