Source: Princeton University Press/ Used with permission. Octopuses and other cephalopods are amazing, strange, sentient beings. They have very active social lives and brains—some say octopuses have ...

In a study that has yet to be peer-reviewed, scientists documented behavior in a captive cephalopod that they say looks very similar to a bad dream. By Carolyn Wilke Costello the octopus was napping ...

Cephalopod camouflage, one of the most fascinating animal behaviors, was remarked upon already by Aristotle, around 350 BC. Many cuttlefish, octopus and squid species evolved means to imitate the ...

Idaho Today host Mellisa Paul had a chance to interview Dr. Alex Schnell, whose latest installment of Nat Geo's Emmy Award-winning Secrets Of… franchise, "Secrets of the Octopus," narrated by Paul ...

Consider the octopus. Smart and sophisticated, it has a brain larger than that of any other invertebrate. With 500 million or so neurons, its nervous system is more typical of animals with a backbone.