Is This Octopus Having a Nightmare?

Have you ever seen an octopus having a nightmare? This intriguing question originated from a video that went viral on social media featuring an octopus seemingly writhing and changing color…

The Trigger That Makes an Octopus Mom Self-Destruct

Most octopus species live for one year. But the deaths of octopus mothers after they reproduce have long been a scientific spectacle. Why exactly octopus mothers engage in a form…

The Search for a Model Octopus That Won’t Die After Laying Its Eggs

🐙 Roy Caldwell, a behavioral ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, first met Octopus chierchiae, also called the lesser Pacific striped octopus, in the mid-1970s in Panama. He was…

The Pain Was Squeezing His Head Like an Octopus. What Was It?

Testing an Amateur’s Theory The wife immediately searched the term on her phone. Giant cell arteritis (G.C.A.) is an autoimmune disease, and like most such diseases, it is rare. It…