These expert camouflage skills have intrigued scientists as long ago as 350 B.C., when Aristotle took interest in octopuses’ ...

Scientists at UC San Diego have moved one step closer to unlocking a superpower held by some of nature's greatest "masters of ...

Scientists at UC San Diego have successfully used bacteria to reproduce a unique pigment that allows octopuses to blend in ...

A team led by UC San Diego was able to mass-produce a key pigment, xanthommatin, that occurs in the psychedelic skin of many ...

UC San Diego scientists have bioengineered bacteria to produce xanthommatin, the rare pigment behind octopus camouflage, ...

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) have achieved a biotechnological leap by successfully ...

Octopuses are masters of camouflage and disguise. An alarmed octopus can vanish even while you watch, flawlessly transforming into what looks like a piece of coral-encrusted rock, or another species ...

Rudd serves as the narrator for National Geographic's upcoming docuseries "Secrets of the Octopus" Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Last year, a South Korean team, inspired by octopus adaptations, developed a metamaterial-based soft machine capable of real-time, multifunctional shape and mechanical properties tuning. ...

Known for their ability to camouflage, octopuses, squids and other animals in the cephalopod family can change their skin colour to expertly blend in with their environment. These fascinating acts of ...