Octopuses, with their doughnut-shaped brain and hundreds of millions of neurons, have demonstrated intelligence in many ways.

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

Octopuses can flip from mottled rock to smooth sand in less time than it takes a human to blink, yet their eyes carry only a ...

Octopuses have a way of making familiar rules feel optional. They live on Earth but behave like visitors with a different ...

Octopuses can taste with their arms, and a new study reveals that specifically, they're tasting chemical cues from microbes that grow on the surface of objects like dead crabs and living octopus eggs.

Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have surprisingly rich social lives. A new study found that some members of an octopus ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

A wildlife charity has declared 2025 "the Year of the Blooming Octopus" after record numbers were spotted off the south-west ...

Octopuses who are often hostile to one another become cuddle puddles when exposed to MDMA Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

It has been the 'year of the octopus' in seas off Cornwall and the south west of England, as warm conditions led to the ...

Despite doing twice as much work daily, I still have no free time at all. How? Plus, canal breaches and multiplying octopuses ...

By Jill Miranda Baker The agenda included close encounters with sharks, rays, manatees, penguins, sea otters, octopuses, ...