While the claim seems a bit out of this world, new research into their brains continues to show just how alien the octopus is, even if it doesn’t end up being of extraterrestrial origins.

Kat Zhou has won the Aquatic Life category in the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, while a shot of a ...

Octopuses seem to be particularly prone to alien theories. A new paper proposes—based on an old theory—that octopuses might have cosmic origins. The problem is that all the evidence says they ...

Normally when you see a story about someone claiming that aliens are hanging out here on Earth its origins can be traced to a misguided conspiracy theorist or crackpot ranting on YouTube.

Part of the octopus’ charm is in its contradictions: they are surprisingly alien-looking, yet express so much curiosity and problem-solving prowess — human traits if there ever were any.

Biologist Roland Anderson asserts that the octopus is the “smartest invertebrate on earth.” Since “95 percent of the creatures on earth are invertebrates, they’re facing an awful lot of ...

Take the Metro's article, for instance.This astounding 100-word piece titled "Octopuses ‘are aliens’, scientists decide after DNA study" is chock full of scientific rigor (sarcasm, obviously).

Scientists claim a new map of the octopus genetic code has revealed a creature so strange that it could be an "alien". The creatures have a hugely complicated genome sequence, and have more ...

In June 2016, a number of web sites reported that, according to recent study, researchers had examined octopus DNA and discovered it was either "alien" or "from space": The DNA of octopus may not ...

I’m speaking of the giant Pacific octopus — a creature that lives wildly right outside your doorstep. But you’d have to go to outer space, or to science fiction, to find a being more unlike ...