As night settles over a Mozambican lagoon, an octopus sets out on the hunt, and every creature on the sandy floor has reason ...

The octopus rarely stays the same shape or color for long. In the wild, its ability to disappear against a shimmering coral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to animal intelligence, octopuses have few rivals. Some species of the cephalopods lug coconut shells around for ...

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 ...

Dorado Octopus arms reaching out. Photo credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute Roughly 300 species of octopus live in the world’s oceans. These creatures embody many traits that people consider particularly ...

When Inky the octopus squeezed through a drain pipe and vanished into the ocean, he exposed something uncomfortable about how ...

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.

The coconut octopus has solved a problem that stumps most soft-bodied ocean creatures: how to survive on a wide-open, featureless seafloor teeming with predators. Its solution involves tools, forward ...

They change shape and color, and squirt ink. But they also will return your gaze, "as if they're scrutinizing you." ...