Octopuses and fish coordinate hunting, forming a partnership that challenges traditional views on animal intelligence and ...

There is no prototypical octopus, just as there is no prototypical dog. A new book explains how these alien, blue-blooded, ...

A group of researchers recently made a surprising discovery while studying videos they captured of octopuses hunting off the ...

The bill has drawn enormous public support but also raised fundamental questions about the intelligence of all the animals ...

One city was built around a human-made scrap of metal whereas the other lingered in the natural setting of a rocky outcrop ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome.

Octopuses have a parrot-like beak, which is the only hard part of their body. The plural of octopus is "octopuses" or "octopi," according to Merriam-Webster . Some people also say "octopodes." ...

This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on the evolutionary tree. That makes it one of the oldest known animal sex ...

Octopuses are smart. Like, gather a posse of fish to do their hunting for them smart. And when the fish step out of line, the ...

Unlike what its name might suggest, a gloomy octopus (Octopus tetricus) is not a loner. These octopuses, in fact, have built their own cities in Australia, as scientists revealed in a paper published ...