A blue-ringed octopus is one of the most dangerous animals in the ocean. Its bite can be fatal to humans. However, very few people have died from a blue-ringed octopus bite. These octopuses are not ...

The octopus is one of the coolest animals in the sea. For starters, they are invertebrates. That means they don’t have backbones like humans, lions, turtles and birds. That may sound unusual, but ...

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Cephalopods like octopuses, squids and cuttlefish are highly intelligent animals with complex nervous systems. In “Science Advances”, a team led by Nikolaus Rajewsky of the Max Delbrück Center has now ...

What is good for an Octopus? Source: Photo by Jeahn Laffitte on Unsplash Heather Browning, an Australian zookeeper at the National Zoo & Aquarium Canberra and PhD candidate at the Australian National ...

Are you tired of discussing which team will win the Super Bowl? Do you have a good handle on how many points will be scored? There is only so much analysis to be done for the popular betting markets ...

Almost a half-mile below Monterey Bay's surface, California scientists recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a ...

Machine consciousness has been debated—and dismissed—since Turing. Yet it still shapes our thinking about AIs like GPT-3. Machines with minds are mainstays of science fiction—the idea of a robot that ...

With sea levels rising, wildfires raging, and prolonged droughts leading to floods, we are increasingly asking, what can keep climate change from becoming catastrophic? A shift away from fossil fuels ...

Among the 15 shortlisted docs, 'My Octopus Teacher’ captures the unusual bond between a burned-out filmmaker and a cephalopod. By Carita Rizzo Celebrated for his 2000 film The Great Dance, South ...