Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the term for being afraid of long words. It’s an obvious joke at the sufferer’s expense, though psychologists tend to use “sesquipedalophobia” instead. The word ...

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The Lehigh Valley Pet Expo will provide animal lovers with three days of pet fun in Allentown, for its 12th year. More than a ...

A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...

SYDNEY—British renewable-energy startup Octopus Energy will spin off utility management platform Kraken Technologies at a valuation of $8.65 billion. Octopus raised $1 billion in its first stand-alone ...

Andy McConnell shared a video of a blue-ringed octopus during a recent vacation in the Philippines A man captured himself unknowingly holding the world's deadliest octopus. On Thursday, Dec. 11, ...

SAN DIEGO — Researchers at UC San Diego have successfully engineered bacteria to produce octopus pigment, opening the door to revolutionary applications in sunscreen, cosmetics, paint, textiles and ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --A Swedish musician spent six months working to accomplish the "worst" and "coolest" thing he has ever done: teaching an octopus to play piano. Mattias Krantz, a YouTuber whose content ...

The white package that arrived at Mattias Krantz’s home in Sweden after a five-hour flight contained an octopus that Krantz saved from becoming someone’s meal. Krantz’s hopes for the octopus, which he ...

A freediver in Cyprus was surprised to play a game of hide-and-seek with an octopus on Sunday. The diver, Matthew Hyatt, who has posted daily video updates to his social media about his attempts to ...