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

The bold question-askers at What If look into the intelligence of octopuses and whether their alien nature points to origins ...

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 ...

“Octopuses were seen as a problem case because they are intelligent and yet solitary, it was assumed, so researchers puzzled for a long time about what’s going on there,” Birch said.

With ear-like fins that flap gracefully through the water, the Dumbo octopus in this YouTube video looks like it waltzed ...

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

On a mild February morning, Isaac Blanco quickly places half a sardine into each cage as his brother, Julio, steers their ...

Octopuses don’t always hunt alone. A new study shows some members of the species Octopus cyanea maraud around the seafloor in hunting groups with fish.

“Octopuses were seen as a problem case because they are intelligent and yet solitary, it was assumed, so researchers puzzled for a long time about what’s going on there,” Birch said.

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