The 2021 film "My Octopus Teacher" swept the world with its touching story of a South African man who befriends a wild octopus while free diving in a kelp forest. Millions of filmgoers were charmed ...

Past research has revealed that ' the eight legs of an octopus have a group of nerves that control the legs independently of the brain ' and that they have the ability to confirm the 'taste' of what ...

Octopus could be poised to join salmon and shrimp on the list of farmed seafood—if scientists, corporations, and critics can ...

While people are generally familiar with how genius octopuses are, there’s always more to learn about the alien creatures’ IQs. In a new clip BBC Earth recently posted to YouTube, we get a glimpse of ...

The octopus is famous for, what else, eight arms, each of which has hundreds of suckers. Scientists have been studying how octopuses control all those weird appendages. It was recently discovered that ...

Researchers at Michigan State University are studying the brain body connection in animals like the octopus, and that research could be used to help develop better prosthetic technology. Dr Galit ...

Five hundred million years of evolution separates humans from the seafloor-scuttling octopus, an invertebrate that stores most of its brain cells in its eight arms. But over the past few years, marine ...

There’s a lot we don’t know about octopuses, but scientists have understood for a long time that they’re fairly antisocial creatures. Left to their own devices, octopuses are basically hermits, ...

Swedish YouTuber Mattias Krantz is known for his unconventional musical projects, but his latest feat takes things to a whole new level. He spent six months investigating whether an octopus — a highly ...

Two years ago, a PBS documentary video showed an octopus named Heidi in what appeared to be an active dream state. Her arms twitched as she slumbered, and her skin flipped wildly through all sorts of ...

Give an octopus a little MDMA and the usually solitary creature will open right up. That's according to research published today in Current Biology. In the study, Johns Hopkins Medical researchers ...