Occasionally, they can be found in shallow tide pools. Giant Pacific octopuses, or GPOs, as they are known at Mote, are reddish-pink with a vein-like pattern covering their bodies. They have eight ...
The northern giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) is the largest, longest-lived octopus species. Although its average length and mass are 5 metres and 20 to 50 kilograms respectively, the ...
Pharmaceutical giant Roche has agreed to buy San Diego-based Poseida Therapeutics for about $1 billion in its effort to assemble a promising pipeline of cell therapies. The merger announced ...
The biggest giant Pacific octopus ever recorded reached a weight of 600 pounds. That’s nearly four times the weight of the average person. This huge octopus was also 30ft across – longer than a London ...
Octopuses are renowned for their instant color-changing abilities, a skill they use to outwit predators and surprise prey. Yet, the energy cost behind this extraordinary camouflage has remained a ...
You might not realize this, but quickly changing colors, as octopuses do, is energetically costly. This, according to a recently published study by two biologists who measured oxygen consumption ...
Trevor Wardill created the lab when he came to the University to further his research interests with cephalopods, which include squids, cuttlefish and octopus, to further our understanding of marine ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It is impossible to ignore: the glossy metal legs contort in the air like the tentacles of a giant black and yellow polka-dotted ...
Steve Aoki fans in Mexico got a big surprise during his Guadalajara tour stop. The famous DJ, who is also an avid MMA fan, invited Diego Lopes as a special guest Monday night. Apart from his sets, ...