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 ...

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.

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Recently, a NOAA-funded expedition encountered a rare undersea “alien” when. In the science fiction horror Europa Report (streaming now on Peacock), ...

“My Octopus Teacher,” a recent 2021 Oscar nominee, has captivated audiences during a tumultuous year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Everything about the octopus seems strange — unworldly, even, as some have suggested — compared to other life forms on Earth. Their evolutionary history is thought to go back 330 million years ...

Octopus vulgaris has up to 150,000 chromatophores, or pigment sacs, in a single square inch of skin. Like many cephalopods, the common cuttlefish ( Sepia officinalis ) is thought to be colorblind.

An octopus’s arms are packed with sensors responding to touch and chemistry, and the arms have enormous flexibility, able to bend in any direction at any point. So there is a lot going on in the arms, ...