A small, two-spotted octopus did something no invertebrate has been recorded doing before: it looked into a mirror, processed ...
Most of us think of the brain as a single command center that controls everything the body does. Octopuses work differently.
An octopus distributes roughly two-thirds of its neurons not in its brain but across its eight arms, giving each limb a ...
Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same. Cephalopods like the giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) ...