A photographer finds a rare orange octopus on a beach, after a surprising increase in their numbers in the area.

Xanthommatin is one of the pigments that helps octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid change color. Xanthommatin used to be difficult to produce in a lab, but a new method tricks genetically modified ...

With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s ...