One of the most striking things about these creatures, however, is the fact that each of their eight arms almost seems to have a mind of its own, allowing an octopus to multitask in a manner that ...

About two thirds are in its arms. The rest are in the doughnut-shaped brain, which is wrapped around the oesophagus and located in the octopus’s head. Octopuses have demonstrated intelligence in a ...

The animal cooperates readily in laboratory experiments. Tests of its capacities before and after brain surgery lend support to the idea that there are two kinds of memory: long-term and short-term ...

At the recent World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, Octopus Energy’s founder and CEO Greg Jackson urged market ...

as well as new bio-hybrid robots that combine living tissues and machines. But it's the abilities of the living octopus which are the main focus for the research.

An authentic photograph shows the body of a massive octopus washed up on the coast of Indonesia. The image was generated by ...