'Remarkably Bright Creatures' author, director preview Sally Field-starring octopus friendship movie

INDIANAPOLIS — "It really started with just me going down this YouTube rabbit hole of octopus videos and becoming kind of ...

Shelby Van Pelt wrote the octopus book ‘Bright Creatures,’ and it keeps pulling her back

CHICAGO — Shelby Van Pelt lives in Wheaton on an unassuming street, the sort without a gate at the entrance, or fleets of ...

Diver convinces a tiny octopus to trade a plastic cup for a shell in Pixar-worthy video

A video shows a diver in Indonesia spending an entire dive convincing a tiny coconut octopus to swap its plastic cup home for ...

Meet The Octopus That Can Impersonate 13 Species On Command

This octopus survives in plain sight. Here’s how it adapts its body in real time to mirror dangerous species and navigate one ...
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Do octopus brains work like humans’—or is there another way to be smart?

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

Meet The Octopus With Enough Venom To Kill 26 Humans. Hint: It’s The Size Of A Golf Ball

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses ...

The 'world's oldest octopus' held that title for 25 years. It's not really an octopus.

A team cracked the case by examining the fossil using a synchrotron, which produces beams of light by accelerating electrons ...

This 300-Million-Year-Old ‘Octopus’ Fossil Was Actually Something Else All Along

For nearly 25 years, a hand-sized fossil pulled from the rocks of Illinois held a remarkable title: the oldest known octopus ...

Scientists just discovered a 60-foot long, kraken-like octopus

The discovery, using novel techniques to analyze fossilized jaws, details how colossal octopuses hunted the Late Cretaceous depths, competing with apex predators.