The remarkable intelligence of octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish may trace back to an ancient reshuffling of their DNA that ...

World Octopus Day 2026 highlights octopuses' unusual intelligence, including learning, problem-solving, tool use and flexible ...

By Mongabay.com Happy World Octopus Day! Every Oct 8, the world celebrates one of the more unusual creatures of the sea.

A comparative genome study and squid embryo experiment explore how folded DNA may shape cephalopod gene regulation.

Dorado Octopus arms reaching out. Photo credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute Roughly 300 species of octopus live in the world’s oceans. These creatures embody many traits that people consider particularly ...

Have you ever seen an octopus?The sight of it slowly moving its eight arms inside an aquarium tankClinging to rocks or ...

As night settles over a Mozambican lagoon, an octopus sets out on the hunt, and every creature on the sandy floor has reason ...

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.

They change shape and color, and squirt ink. But they also will return your gaze, "as if they're scrutinizing you." ...