An image shared online in December 2025 was an authentic drone picture of a gargantuan octopus spotted in the Gulf of Mexico.

The eight-legged invertebrates were spotted off the British coast in their highest numbers since the 1950s, wildlife charity ...

Octopuses have a way of making familiar rules feel optional. They live on Earth but behave like visitors with a different ...

Olson explains that “there are many gross similarities [between the ANC and vertebrates’ spinal cords]—there is a cell body region, a neuropil region, and long tracts to connect the arms and brains in ...

A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods (which can be a timespan of multiple years), she does not eat and dies ...

The task required hundreds of hours of problem-solving and patience. Musician Mattias Krantz said it was worth it.

A creature of soft body, eight arms with one brilliant brain, short lived creature, yet it thinks in a certain way that ...

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An octopus lies amid rocks on the Pacific Ocean floor off the coast of Oregon. (Photo: OOI-NSF / UW / CSSF) Are intelligent aliens living among us? A newly published novel just might lead you to think ...