Explore why alien life may think and behave like octopuses, whose unusual biology evolved along a path unlike almost any ...

With three hearts, blue blood and arms that appear to think independently, the octopus may be one of Earth’s strangest creatures—rewriting what scientists thought intelligence.

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

Octopuses are among the strangest animals ever discovered. They have 3 hearts, blue blood, and a nervous system so complex ...

Filmmakers have shaped our perception of the unknown, and Steven Spielberg has had aliens on the mind for a while now. He even believes they have been to Earth and may still be amongst us. Will his ...

Octopuses and squids carry the largest nervous systems of any invertebrate, and roughly two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons ...

The octopus is one of the strangest creatures on Earth. With 500 million neurons, the ability to change color in milliseconds, and arms that can think and act independently, it challenges almost ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

Octopuses may be even smarter than we thought. Researchers at Dartmouth found that octopuses can learn to use mirrors to locate food hidden behind them—a skill previously seen only in vertebrates like ...

Octopuses are remarkably intelligent creatures, as was demonstrated by Inky the Octopus's famous escape from the National Aquarium of New Zealand through a drainpipe back to sea in 2016. A new ...

Today, the Supreme Court ruled that CBP can decline to admit a lawful permanent resident into the U.S. based on an ongoing ...