The 2021 film "My Octopus Teacher" swept the world with its touching story of a South African man who befriends a wild octopus while free diving in a kelp forest. Millions of filmgoers were charmed ...

Swedish YouTuber Mattias Krantz is known for his unconventional musical projects, but his latest feat takes things to a whole ...

The octopus is famous for, what else, eight arms, each of which has hundreds of suckers. Scientists have been studying how octopuses control all those weird appendages. It was recently discovered that ...

Octopuses, along with their cephalopod cousins squids and cuttlefish, are considered to be some of the most intelligent invertebrates out there. They have large brains and are able to quickly master a ...

Mattias Krantz is a YouTuber with a penchant for bonkers engineering and musical projects. A few months ago, he went into a wet market looking not for lunch, but for a potential prodigy. Krantz wanted ...

Nine brains, blue blood, instant camouflage: It’s no surprise that octopuses capture our interest and our imaginations. Science-fiction creators, in particular, have been inspired by these tentacled ...

The white package that arrived at Mattias Krantz’s home in Sweden after a five-hour flight contained an octopus that Krantz saved from becoming someone’s meal. Krantz’s hopes for the octopus, which he ...

Two years ago, a PBS documentary video showed an octopus named Heidi in what appeared to be an active dream state. Her arms twitched as she slumbered, and her skin flipped wildly through all sorts of ...

EXPERIMENTS on shape discrimination in rats, using the Lashley two-card jumping stand, have shown that, when rats are pre-trained to discriminate horizontal from vertical striations (horizontal ...