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 ...

YouTuber and musician Mattias Krantz spent six months teaching an octopus how to play a custom-built piano. The process required a lot of creative problem-solving skills, including motivating the ...

These five research-backed insights show why the octopus remains one of the most extraordinary minds in the animal kingdom.

Octopuses possess great problem-solving skills (such as opening jars and untying knots), and are champions of camouflaging.

Octopuses. They’re the little aquatic aliens that haunt our dreams, and, on rare occasion, our toilets. But the squishy octopods are more than just aquatic-type nightmare fuel. They’re also a source ...

A creature of soft body, eight arms with one brilliant brain, short lived creature, yet it thinks in a certain way that rivals some mammals. It's an octopus that has around 500 million neurons which ...