The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms rather than its brain—it can solve puzzles, recognize individual people, ...

With three hearts, blue blood and arms that appear to think independently, the octopus may be one of Earth’s strangest creatures—rewriting what scientists thought intelligence.

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

Here's a question that sounds like science fiction but is being asked in deadly earnest by serious philosophers. Does consciousness require flesh and blood? It's a question I wrestled with myself when ...

Nature harbours a chilling arsenal of predators that don’t just kill their prey — they dissolve it. These eight grisly ...