An Italian model vacationing in the Seychelles found love when he was least expecting it — with an octopus. Federico Cola was taking a dip in the stunning waters of the East African honeymooners ...

Federico Cola joked that he found his true love after the animal wrapped itself around his leg. The Italian model was on holiday in the Seychelles when he encountered the marine creature. The video ...

There are many reasons why traffic grinds to a halt in central London. But drivers found a new one on Tuesday – a giant octopus. A truck carrying a model eight-legged mollusc caused chaos in the ...

After decades of collecting dust in a Harvard Museum of Natural History classroom, a life-size papier-mâché model of an octopus has found a new home. With each of its looping tentacles stretching out ...

Children will soon get their hands on eight arms. In a few weeks, youths will assist in completing The Alaska State Museum’s new giant Pacific octopus installation built by exhibit specialist Aaron ...

Research describes a computational model that captures the intricate muscular architecture of an octopus arm. Mechanical engineering PhD candidate Arman Tekinalp, fellow graduate student Seung Hyun ...

Octopus arms coordinate nearly infinite degrees of freedom to perform complex movements such as reaching, grasping, fetching, crawling, and swimming. How these animals achieve such a wide range of ...

BELLEVUE, WA--Researchers studying the behavior and neuroscience of octopuses have long suspected that the animals' arms may have minds of their own. A new model being presented here is the first ...

The team's modeling approach is significant to advancement in robotics, dynamics and control systems. The model is in turn used to explain how structural mechanics dramatically simplify the control of ...