A new species of shape-shifting octopus has just been described by scientists in Australia. The tiny cephalopod grows only about 1.6 inches across, but it can survive more than half a mile beneath the ...

Camouflage isn't the only way cephalopods have evolved to change their appearance. Octopuses and other cephalopods make the fastest transformations in the animal kingdom. Here, a giant Pacific octopus ...

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Researchers in the US have been inspired by octopuses and cuttlefish to create a new kind of shape-shifting artificial “skin”. Based at Cornell University and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods ...