Which animal is the most intelligent and might even rival humans in cleverness? PETBOOK provides an overview of the world's ...

The octopus is one of the strangest creatures on Earth. With 500 million neurons, the ability to change color in milliseconds, and arms that can think and act independently, it challenges almost ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

‘I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to go swimming in the ancient oceans if these things were swimming around,’ one scientist said. Illustration: Hokkaido University. For centuries, humans have told ...

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Now, scientists have discovered that the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) can also learn to use mirrors, ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...

A fishing trip of the California coast last week produced an extraordinary catch: a type of octopus that constructs its own shell to ride ocean currents.