World Octopus Day reveals how intelligent, adaptable, and important octopuses are to our planet’s oceans today.

Prof. Hochner (Hebrew University) and Prof. Lichtman (Harvard) reveal Octopus vulgaris' neural intricacies for learning via advanced mapping. Unique interneuron types in a feedforward structure ...

Aristotle didn’t have a high opinion of the octopus. “The octopus is a stupid creature,” he wrote, “for it will approach a man’s hand if it be lowered in the water.” Twenty-four centuries later, this ...

The octopus is a natural escape artist. It can squeeze its soft body into impossibly tight spaces and often baffles aquarium workers with its ability to break out of tanks. These abilities could be ...

On the morning of December 26, 2004, animals across Asia and Africa were acting strangely. Elephants elicited horrific bellows, herds of oxen bolted for higher ground, and domestic dogs refused to go ...

Did you know that the humble octopus can teach us how to prevent security threats or deal with natural catastrophes? Nor did Rachael Stubbins until she read Rafe Sagarin’s new book In a world where we ...