Octopus vulgaris has up to 150,000 chromatophores ... but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked. Squirt had notoriously accurate ...

Octopuses have about as many neurons as a dog – the common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, has around 500 million ... one about a lab where all the fish were going missing from their tank,” says Jon. “The ...

Their eight arms are lined with hundreds of suckers; this allows them to manipulate objects, whether it’s to open clamshells, dismantle the filtration system of an aquarium tank, or unscrew lids ...

Surrounded by the Tank Room's countless curious-looking specimen jars ... Amongst them are several specimens collected by English naturalist Charles Darwin. A common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, ...

We named him Squirt—not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.