The behavior was so quick that the filmmakers had to play back the footage in slow motion to capture the shots of the octopus firing projectiles. In the new Netflix documentary "Our Oceans," stunning ...

In a groundbreaking discovery captured on film for the Netflix series 'Our Oceans,' a coconut octopus has been observed using projectile motion to hurl stones at fish. This unprecedented behavior, ...

We’ve known for centuries that octopuses get around one of two ways: one, by crawling over surfaces with their arms, or, two, swimming with the help of their siphon’s jet. But a new study (pdf) shows ...

Panel A — Octopus (left) projects silt and kelp through the water; B – an octopus (right) is hit by a cloud of silt projected through the water by a throwing octopus; C – shells, silt, algae or some ...