The common octopus, or Octopus vulgaris, is highly sought after for human consumption, but the mass mortality of paralarvae during their early life stages poses significant challenges for ...

The nervous system of this common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, is far larger and more complex than that of most invertebrates. Can it think? Is it conscious, as some scientists and philosophers suggest?

Aboard HMS Beagle in 1832, near the Cape Verde island of Santiago (then called St Jago), the young naturalist Charles Darwin met his match in the form of a common octopus. Surrounded by the Tank ...

It’s also larger than many vertebrates, although not mammals. Octopuses have about as many neurons as a dog – the common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, has around 500 million. About two thirds are in its ...

Octopus vulgaris has up to 150,000 chromatophores ... In a 2021 study that gave common cuttlefish a choice between a less desirable but immediate snack of crab and a preferred treat of live ...