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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: World Animal Rescue Network - Octopus: Facts, Threats and Conservation. | Oct 16, 2026 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 21, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - How octopuses use and recruit additional arms to find and manipulate visually hidden items. | Dec 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature Communications - Cell type diversity in a developing octopus brain. | Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Sep 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - High energetic cost of color change in octopuses. | Jul 11, 2025 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience - Where Is It Like to Be an Octopus? | Mar 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: WebMD - What to Know About Australian Shepherds. | Aug 18, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | May 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Future - The mysterious inner life of the octopus. | Oct 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National History Museum - Octopuses keep surprising us - here are eight examples how. | Aug 08, 2023 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | May 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Animal Foundation - Octopus. | Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Oct 29, 2020 | ||
| Deleted video. | Nov 26, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 24, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 13, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 18, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 03, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Kids - Fun Science and Technology for Kids! - Fun Octopus Facts for Kids. | Dec 29, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Easy Science For Kids - Giant Octopus. | Dec 29, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: OneKind Planet - Octopus. | Aug 24, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - Octopus Facts. | Aug 24, 2016 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | May 06, 2015 | ||
| Added video. | Feb 19, 2015 | ||
| Added video. | Jan 19, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wildscreen Arkive - Common octopus. | Apr 22, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Octopus. | Apr 22, 2014 | ||
| Added several images of octopuses. | Oct 31, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Octopus and Squid. | Aug 22, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Octopus. | Feb 15, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Globio - Glossopedia - Octopus. | Feb 14, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Kids - Octopus. | Feb 14, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: SeaWorld - Octopus. | Feb 14, 2013 | ||
| New text describing the use of makeshift portable shelters by the veined octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) added. | Dec 29, 2009 | ||
| New media added. | May 22, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Animal Planet - Octopus. | Apr 14, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Nov 26, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - How Octopuses Work. | May 28, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 28, 2003 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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