Thousands of feet beneath the waves, where sunlight has never reached, scientists are discovering creatures that look more ...

With their incredible intelligence, shape-shifting abilities, and strange anatomy, octopuses often seem almost otherworldly.

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‘I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to go swimming in the ancient oceans if these things were swimming around,’ one scientist said. Illustration: Hokkaido University. For centuries, humans have told ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

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 ...

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The sentiment that we know more about space than we do about the depths of our oceans has been debated for many years. Though it’s not completely true, it cannot be disputed that both the depths of ...

Octopuses may be even smarter than we thought. Researchers at Dartmouth found that octopuses can learn to use mirrors to locate food hidden behind them—a skill previously seen only in vertebrates like ...

Octopuses are remarkably intelligent creatures, as was demonstrated by Inky the Octopus's famous escape from the National Aquarium of New Zealand through a drainpipe back to sea in 2016. A new ...

You've probably heard the theory before – it's that the octopus is not from earth. They're aliens. They are so different from anything else on this planet, that they must have come from a different ...