Learn how specialized sensory cells and 500 million neurons help octopuses recognize mates and reproduce through touch alone.

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory ...

To test their ideas, scientists observed California two-spot octopuses in tanks. They placed males and females on opposite ...

When the scientists paired two male octopuses in the same setup, the males interacted by touching arms, but they never ...