Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, my father taught biology at Middlebury College in Vermont. One of his signature courses focused on invertebrates and, ...

‘Octopuses are extremely intelligent and extremely curious. And it’s well known they are not happy in conditions of captivity,’ says WWF’s Raul Garcia (Getty) ...

The southern sand octopus has taken hide-and-seek to a whole new level. It shoots jets of water into the seafloor creating quicksand that allows it to vanish. A skilled architect, the octopus can ...

Researchers have recently created and built an octopus-inspired robot called 'TentacleGripper' that can grip, hold, move, lift and manipulate objects that surround them. It is widely known that ...