While people are generally familiar with how genius octopuses are, there’s always more to learn about the alien creatures’ IQs. In a new clip BBC Earth recently posted to YouTube, we get a glimpse of ...

Octopuses are purportedly colorblind, but they can discern one thing that we can’t: polarized light. This extra visual realm might give them a leg (er, arm) up on some of the competition. And a team ...

We already knew cephalopods are amazing creatures—how many of us can go from colored to invisible in a blink? Hell, octopuses can even operate cameras. Still, sensing light with one’s skin is a pretty ...

Researchers found out that octopuses can detect light through their skin, whithout passing it by their eyes and brain. In this photo, octopus Ophira, a so-called "octopus oracle", is pictured as it ...

Imagine a one-of-a-kind 100-foot lighted octopus rising from the sea, its tentacles flashing in the darkness, surrounded by ocean reef and flanked by glowing jellyfish. This amazing sight will delight ...

Octopuses are pretty good at blending in, but how do they choose when to change colour? It was thought that they used their eyes and brain to do it, now it seems they can bypass all that thanks to ...

When a scuba diver spotted this octopus he couldn't resist catching the changing colours of its body on camera. Trying to protect itself from any potential predators, the sea creature looks as if it ...

The octopus may have flexible arms, but it uses them in the same three-jointed way as vertebrates, a finding that sheds intriguing light on how limbs evolved, a new study says. The octopus may have ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Octopuses might be charismatic, but not many ...

Octopuses and their tentacled brethren are fascinating, and even a little scary. In addition to their uniquely alien intelligence, cephalopods are known to change color based on their surroundings.