The octopus certainly does look strange, with bugged-out eyes, suction-cup tentacles, and the ability to change color for camouflage. But a new paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal posits that ...

What animal has blue blood, three hearts and can change color and shape within three-tenths of a second? The same animal has venom like a snake, a beak like a parrot and ink like a pen. It is an ...

We don’t know if androids dream of electric sheep, but whatever octopuses dream of must be something adventurous because they change color a lot while they’re sleeping. And while the octopus in the ...

Some scientists have already made the argument that octopuses might be aliens. While the claim seems a bit out of this world, new research into their brains continues to show just how alien the ...

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 ...

An octopus lies amid rocks on the Pacific Ocean floor off the coast of Oregon. (Photo: OOI-NSF / UW / CSSF) Are intelligent aliens living among us? A newly published novel just might lead you to think ...

Biologists have re-discovered a specie Octopus bimaculoides that shares some of our social and mating habits. Photo: AP/Roy L. Caldwell Washington: Scientists have for the first time sequenced the ...