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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The clip, narrated by marine biologist Dr David Scheel, comes from an upcoming PBS nature documentary set to air in the US next month, and shows the octopus sleeping upside down in an aquarium. As the ...

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 ...

An octopus's astonishing ability to camouflage itself while hunting for food has been captured on film by a tourist on holiday in the Red Sea. The unidentified Czech holidaymaker was enjoying a short ...

When a scuba diver spotted this octopus he couldn't resist catching the changing colours of its body on camera. Trying to protect itself from any potential predators, the sea creature looks as if it ...

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 ...

Discover the science behind octopi changing colour in the box below RARELY seen footage of an octopus changing colour has been captured in a perhaps unlikely location: the shores of Wales. It follows ...

This question was submitted by Ms. Tyus’ fifth-grade class at Benton Elementary. A: “An octopus is capable of changing the color and texture of its skin. This is a form of camouflage and allows the ...

A snap of a shapeshifting octopus has got people in a tangle trying to spot the camouflaged critter. The colour-changing cephalopod is almost impossible to spot as it hides on the ocean floor off Ari ...