The California two-spot octopus is a solitary creature. How exactly they manage to find suitable mates has been one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets. Now scientists have discovered that male octopuses ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory system and can even couple at arm's length without actually seeing each other.

When octopuses mate, the male keeps the female quite literally at arm’s length. For the act, the male has a special arm called a hectocotylus, which it uses to deposit a sack of sperm inside the ...