Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same.

The octopus is a striking creature. Their most defining feature, of course, is their eight arms. A new study of octopuses has now documented exactly how those eight arms are used in the wild.

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 ...

Octopuses are cephalopods that live in oceans around the world. They are also some of the most intelligent creatures on Earth. Their brain structures vary depending on where they live. For example, ...

Octopuses have a few characteristics that make them stand out as one of the most intelligent mollusks in the ocean. These slippery, strange ocean creatures, characterized by their large craniums and ...

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In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious creature.” Heavy webbing between the arms of a female blanket octopus ...

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When people think of intelligent animals, they immediately think of dolphins, elephants, and chimpanzees. But one of the most ...