Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Octopuses have added another astonishing skill to their résumé. In a first-ever feat for the animals, ...

Scientists have now shown that octopuses can learn to use mirror reflections to find food hidden from direct view. The resulting study suggests octopuses possess a more advanced level of spatial ...

In June 2025, the SciFri Book Club read Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel. Luckily, there is also a young readers edition, so you can learn about these amazing ...

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.

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 ...

Octopuses have spent the last few decades quietly upending what scientists thought they knew about intelligence outside the ...

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.

In Feb. 2024, I had the amazing opportunity to interview Dr. Alex Schnell for the next installment of Nat Geo’s “Secrets of…” franchise premiering today on Disney+. This iteration is focused on the ...

Did you know octopuses are highly intelligent animals with the ability to problem-solve complex puzzles – and even change color? They have three hearts and blue blood, helping them survive in deep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images We ...