Scientists believe they have discovered some key information about the octopus' brain. We've known for centuries that octopuses are smarter than your everyday invertebrates. However, we never really ...

These five research-backed insights show why the octopus remains one of the most extraordinary minds in the animal kingdom.

The octopus is one of the coolest animals in the sea. For starters, they are invertebrates. That means they don’t have backbones like humans, lions, turtles and birds. That may sound unusual, but ...

Among the smartest animals on Earth, octopuses are unique for being utterly weird in their evolutionary path to developing those smarts. Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith has called the octopus the ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. A family of "jumping genes", which hop ...

The octopus is an exceptional organism with an extremely complex brain and cognitive abilities that are unique among invertebrates. So much so that in some ways it has more in common with vertebrates ...

Some scientists have already made the argument that octopuses might be aliens. While the claim seems a bit out of this world, new research into their brains continues to show just how alien the ...

Scientists have spent years trying to work out if octopuses, whose brains have some remarkable similarities to our own, have dreams. A recent study even purported that the eight-armed cephalopods can ...

Source: National Marine Sanctuaries, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In a new study, researchers from the University of Queensland used advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to ...

The unique brainpower of octopuses—known for their intelligence and Houdini-like escapes—has been revealed by University of Queensland researchers. Dr. Wen-Sung Chung from UQ's Queensland Brain ...

For scientist Dominic Sivitilli, a Ph.D. candidate in astrobiology and psychology at the University of Washington, the answer is under the sea. “The octopuses’ long, separate evolution toward ...