One of the unexpected joys of having small children is having to adjust your mindset to the pace and contours of how they experience the world. Unencumbered by the frameworks and presuppositions that ...

The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

We've long suspected that octopuses / octopodes / whatever are so damn creepy and unsettling, they've GOT to be aliens. After all, they're capable of slipping through the tiniest of openings to escape ...

Octopuses have a way of making familiar rules feel optional. They live on Earth but behave like visitors with a different instruction manual. Scientists study them for answers about intelligence and ...