We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity ...

Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own. When scientists in Japan pinched an artificial appendage during experiments, octopuses recoiled in defense – swimming away, ...

Cephalopods – including octopuses, cuttlefish and squid – possess one of the most sophisticated neural systems among invertebrates, which supports a wide array of complex behaviours. Their neural ...

Researchers studied octopuses in the wild to learn whether they favor one of their eight arms over the others for certain jobs, but found the creatures give new meaning to ambidextrous. The octopus is ...

Imagine a world without humans. A study suggests octopuses could take over. These marine creatures show remarkable ...