Octopuses do not need to see or smell their prey to identify it. Researchers have shown that the suckers lining each arm ...

Most of us think of the brain as a single command center that controls everything the body does. Octopuses work differently.

The 2021 film "My Octopus Teacher" swept the world with its touching story of a South African man who befriends a wild octopus while free diving in a kelp forest. Millions of filmgoers were charmed ...

A small, two-spotted octopus did something no invertebrate has been recorded doing before: it looked into a mirror, processed ...

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Octopuses are brainy creatures with sophisticated smarts, and now scientists have uncovered a clue that may partly explain the cephalopods' remarkable intelligence: Its genes have a genetic quirk that ...

Mature male octopuses have a specialized 'hectocotylus' for transferring spermatophores containing sperm. Research by Keijiro Haruki and colleagues at Nagasaki University has revealed that a small ...

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