A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

While the book has some elements of a standard detective potboiler, it takes readers in unexpected directions with lovable ...

A viral Instagram video posted in April 2026 showed an octopus throwing rocks at another octopus, along with a claim that females fling objects at persistent males. The video turned out to be ...

You’ve probably seen it by now — that Instagram video posted in April 2026 of an octopus hurling rocks at another octopus, ...

Octopuses have been caught on camera throwing objects underwater, sometimes hitting rivals. Research explains what's really ...

A 2022 research study conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney, led by Prof Peter Godfrey-Smith, documented this remarkable behavior in the wild. The findings, published in PLOS One, ...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

Scientific knowledge is constantly updated, revised, or reshuffled as new insights emerge. One particular fossil was thought ...

At up to 2m in length, female blanket octopuses are at least ten thousand times heavier than the tiny 2cm-long males, which ...

Happy Saturday! This week, researchers reported on the familiar phenomenon of speeding away from a slower-driving car only to ...

Korn, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons For years, a 300-million-year-old fossil in Chicago was celebrated as the world’s oldest ...