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

How do octopuses mate in the dark? A new study shows how the hectocotylus arm uses progesterone receptors to "taste" for a mate.

In lieu of a penis, the male has a special mating arm called a hectocotylus. In a new study published today in Science, ...

Scientists found that the male’s hectocotylus, the specialized arm for mating, is lined with receptors that can sense ...

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

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

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

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

Male octopuses can fertilise a mate, even if they cannot see their sexual partner. View on euronews ...