Octopuses are regularly presented with puzzles that would leave many other animals in a bind. Octopuses know how to open jars, slide lids, or navigate mazes to get their prey. It is the fact that they ...

And they reply! But one wild animal I believe is the smartest animal on earth is the Octopus. I’ve come to admire this ...

In February 2023, researchers announced that they had managed to record brain activity in freely moving octopuses for the first time. The scientists implanted electrodes and a data logger into day ...

Martin and Chris show how intelligent giant Pacific octopus really are! Martin and Chris talk about how the giant Pacific octopus is the most intelligent invertebrate creature. They test the ...

SAN DIEGO — Just off the Southwestern shores of South Africa, Filmmaker Craig Foster dove into the icy waters of the pacific nearly every day to document his a relationship with a wild octopus. The ...

Among the smartest animals on Earth, octopuses are unique for being utterly weird in their evolutionary path to developing those smarts. Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith has called the octopus the ...

The octopus is one of the coolest animals in the sea. For starters, they are invertebrates. That means they don’t have backbones like humans, lions, turtles, and birds. That may sound unusual, but ...

An “exceptional” number of Mediterranean Octopus have been spotted along the south coast of England this year, putting on rarely-seen displays in shallow waters. Revered as one of the most intelligent ...

Consider the octopus. With eight arms, elliptical pupils, color- and texture-changing skin, and a scary beak, it is a creature that seems conjured from the most Boschian of realities. But the ...

When people think of intelligent animals, they immediately think of dolphins, elephants, and chimpanzees. But one of the most intelligent problem-solvers is hiding deep beneath the surface, called the ...

Unprecedented numbers of the common octopus have been found in British waters this year, but what’s behind the rare ‘bloom’? An “exceptional” number of Mediterranean Octopus have been spotted along ...