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 ...

A British holiday maker has struck up a friendship with an octopus in Cyprus, saying it is 'like having contact with an alien'. Matthew Hyatt, 28, met the sea creature off Limassol, Cyprus, on October ...

627 million km (390 million mi) from Earth, underneath the cold seas of Europa, a horrifying, and vastly intelligent creature lurks. Can our human minds even comprehend such an alien creature? It ...

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 ...