Octopuses are a pretty incredible species, known for having 8 arms, being highly intelligent and being able to fit into just ...

These intelligent sea creatures have multiple brains — nine, to be exact. In addition to a central brain located between its ...

King is not the only scientist comparing octopuses to chimpanzees. Both animals have displayed extreme intelligence, so much so that last month the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) rocked ...

Growing interest in commercial octopus farming threatens to subject these cognitively complex, sentient animals to inhumane ...

Octopuses don’t think like we do. In fact, most of their neurons aren’t in their brains at all. Instead, they’re spread ...

The octopuses are capable of making these edits in less than a day. Compare that to DNA, which takes generations to change. RNA provides a more flexible alternative.

Even without noses, octopuses are able to determine which food sources are good to eat and which have gone past their prime ...

Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have surprisingly rich social lives. IE 11 is not supported.

Octopuses are capable of sophisticated tasks, from solving puzzles to decorating their dens to remembering people's faces. So when a company in Spain announced that it wanted to commercially farm ...

Over 6,000 octopuses have been found huddling around an extinct volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean near California, and researchers now think they understand why the octopuses find it so cozy.

Researchers reported on Tuesday in the journal Cell that octopus arms are fine-tuned to “eavesdrop into the microbial world,” ...