Meet The Animal That Solves Puzzles, Uses Tools And Plans Ahead. Hint: It’s Not A Primate

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

The Giant Pacific Octopus Is Actually 2 Different Species, And Nobody Noticed Until Now

A new discovery revealed that the sea creature referred to as the giant Pacific octopus is actually made up of two different species. The new giant octopus species was hiding in plain sight for so ...
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The Ballad of Tako: Crazy Experiment Teaches Octopus to Play the Piano in 6 Months

Mattias Krantz is a YouTuber with a penchant for bonkers engineering and musical projects. A few months ago, he went into a ...
The Daily Dot

The octopus has the weirdest DNA map scientists have ever seen

Wells anecdotally referred to octopuses as “the only alien intelligence that humans have encountered.” But try as he might, Wells—who devoted his life to the study of cephalopods—could not tap the ...