While an octopus-dominated future may seem "improbable ... "It's impossible to predict with any degree of certainty how evolution will unfold over extended periods." Rafi Schwartz has worked ...

Octopus fossils are rare ... The short answer is: evolution. Through tens of millions of years, individuals that were better at disguise were more likely to evade predators and leave offspring.

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.

A group of researchers recently made a surprising discovery while studying videos they captured of octopuses hunting off the coast of Israel. The 120 hours of footage they shot revealed that the big ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

This study opens a new avenue of research into the role of miRNAs in octopus brain evolution. Octopus brains have intrigued scientists for a long time because they evolved independently of vertebrates ...

Learn more about the mating of blue-lined octopuses - a treacherous ordeal involving sex, cannibalism, and sedation.

Octopuses have a large nervous system, with the average octopus having about 500 million neurons or brain cells. That puts it in the same “brain range” as smaller mammals such as dogs.

Octopus, probably Pareledone species, from 500m depth on the Bellingshausen Sea continental shelf.Pic BAS.) Scientists, including from British Antarctic Survey, have used octopus DNA to discover ...

What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? Philosopher and scuba ...

And when a fish slacks off, the octopus isn’t shy about delivering it a swift slap. Teamwork Beneath the Waves New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution studied how the common octopus ...