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

Ray Nayler’s novel The Mountain in the Sea asks the kinds of questions about us, our future and our interaction with other living beings that are raised by many great works of science fiction. In his ...

An octopus lies amid rocks on the Pacific Ocean floor off the coast of Oregon. (Photo: OOI-NSF / UW / CSSF) Are intelligent aliens living among us? A newly published novel just might lead you to think ...

Meeting an octopus is, in many respects, the closest we can come to meeting interplanetary aliens. Yet, new research shows their brains have some startling commonalities to those of humans—perhaps ...