If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

With three hearts, blue blood and arms that appear to think independently, the octopus may be one of Earth’s strangest creatures—rewriting what scientists thought intelligence.

Octopuses are among the strangest animals ever discovered. They have 3 hearts, blue blood, and a nervous system so complex ...

Explore why alien life may think and behave like octopuses, whose unusual biology evolved along a path unlike almost any ...

The octopus is one of the strangest creatures on Earth. With 500 million neurons, the ability to change color in milliseconds, and arms that can think and act independently, it challenges almost ...

Octopuses and squids carry the largest nervous systems of any invertebrate, and roughly two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons ...

Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely 'substrate flexible', challenging the ...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Thursday that the Department of Justice has indicted three illegal aliens for allegedly smuggling more than ...

While Roger Ebert didn't dislike '90s monster action horror movies in general, he felt this specific flop was little more than a boring Alien knockoff.

The Supreme Court held Thursday that, for the purposes of federal immigration law, asylum-seekers do not arrive in the United ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Left unchecked, Majano could devastate Hawaiʻi reefs. The good news: Efforts to eradicate an invasive anemone appear to be ...