If forced to choose one descriptor for the octopus, the best word may be “otherworldly.” These truly amazing marine animals ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

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The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...

A prehistoric fossil previously thought to belong to the world's oldest octopus has been reclassified as something else, after scientists discovered the remains actually belonged to a different type ...