Octopuses have spent the last few decades quietly upending what scientists thought they knew about intelligence outside the ...

(Eric VOLTO/500px/Getty Images) Biologists have long believed that having a large brain, relative to your body, might go hand ...

Discover how octopuses challenge our understanding of intelligence with their unique brains, autonomous arms, and potential ...

Source: National Marine Sanctuaries, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In a new study, researchers from the University of Queensland used advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to ...

The octopus is an exceptional organism with an extremely complex brain and cognitive abilities that are unique among invertebrates. So much so that in some ways it has more in common with vertebrates ...

Octopuses are fascinating in more ways than one. Beyond their impressive intelligence, they also have other unique features like three hearts, an amazing ability to camouflage, and a central brain ...

Octopuses may have big brains because of environmental – not social – factors. Large brains in mammals are generally thought to be linked to social behaviour, an idea known as the social brain ...

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.