Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Octopuses can solve complex puzzles, use tools, and escape secure aquariums. Part of its brain lives in its arms. It can see with ...

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Octopuses are fascinating creatures that use various methods of locomotion to navigate their environment. Learn more about the unique ways in which octopuses move and explore their underwater world.

The octopus is a biological oddity. It can use tools, open jars, and its complex nervous system supports as many neurons as a small primate. Now Harvard biologists have discovered a mysterious ...

Octopuses don’t thermoregulate, so their powerful brains are exposed to—and potentially threatened by—changes in temperature. Researchers report June 8 in the journal Cell that two-spot octopuses ...

It could be easy to miss a blob the size of a golf ball. But its blue hue—the rarest color in nature—stood out against the sand, grabbing researchers’ attention. It wasn’t a blob but an adorable blue ...

I got a book this summer called Octopus: the Ocean’s Intelligent Invertebrate. If I had time, I would start a religion around worshipping octopuses (not octopi) because they are so cool. But since I ...