When it comes to human bodies, there is no such thing as typical. Variation is the rule. In recent years, the biological sciences have increased their focus on exploring the poignant lack of norms ...

The mating process in octopuses does not involve vision as a means of identifying a mate. Rather, the animals employ a process which is referred to as “taste by touch,” where the limbs of octopuses ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory system and can even couple at arm's length without actually seeing each other.

Sensory organ in male cephalopod able to detect female hormone progesterone, even if male cannot see partner Sex might seem an intimate act, but scientists have shed fresh light on how octopuses ...

The octopus is one of the world’s most amazing creatures, and nothing puts that into perspective more than the physiological differences between these fantastic sea-dwelling mollusks and the creatures ...