We’ve all grown up fearing sharks, the ultimate ocean predator. But what if I told you the ocean has another contender for ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world ... Mating happens at arm’s length for the four species of these cephalopods. The tiny male detaches its hectocotylus—a modified arm ...

While Nayler's story is wholly fictional, it is not without basis in a very real school of zoological thought, one which holds that octopuses are indeed unique within the animal kingdom as we ...

The mimic octopus, which lives in sandy habitats devoid of any shelter, even impersonates some of the ocean’s deadliest ...

Explore how dinosaurs octopus intelligence, adaptability, and evolution position them as potential creators of the next ...

According to Coulson, after humans, the earth might witness a new form of intelligence. There is a strong possibility that ...

While modern humans are only Homo sapiens, there are many different species of octopus that live in a variety of places, from the deep sea to the seashore. So, Coulson said, 'if one population or ...

When stretched from tip to tip, the world's largest octopus species, the giant Pacific octopus, has an arm measurement of 7 feet or more, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.

Just how smart are cephalopods, really? After all, it’s legal to farm chickens and cows. Is an octopus smarter than, say, a ...

After all, it’s legal to farm chickens and cows. Is an octopus smarter than, say, a turkey? Some of these species live alone in the nearly featureless darkness of the deep ocean; others live ...