Octopuses are fascinating animals—and serve as important model organisms in neuroscience, cognition research and developmental biology. To gain a deeper understanding of their biology and evolutionary ...

The octopuses in question are the Australian southern sand octopus and the common octopus, the same species featured in Netflix's Oscar award-winning documentary "My Octopus Teacher." Compounds in ...

Most of us think of the brain as a single command center that controls everything the body does. Octopuses work differently.

When Canadian writer Emma Knight was a teen, she decided to move across the pond to attend the University of Edinburgh. "For me, it was the idea of adventure that attracted me," said Knight on ...

It's not every day that scientists discover a new species of octopus, but that is exactly what has happened off the coast of western Australia. During a CSIRO research expedition to the Carnarvon ...

Octopuses may have gained some of their exceptional intelligence from the same evolutionary process that humans went through, a new study suggests. The process involved a sudden explosion of microRNAs ...