‘Year of the octopus’: How climate change is pushing the sea’s smartest creature into new territory

Unprecedented numbers of the common octopus have been found in British waters this year, but what’s behind the rare ‘bloom’? View on euronews ...
Newsweek

Octopus Intelligence Has Been Proven by Science—Here’s How

Plans are underway to open the world's first octopus farm in Spain—a move that has been met with considerable backlash from animal rights groups. Spanish seafood commercialization company Nueva ...
Yahoo

Sea geniuses: all the ways that octopuses are wildly intelligent

Octopuses are cephalopods that live in oceans around the world. They are also some of the most intelligent creatures on Earth. Their brain structures vary depending on where they live. For example, ...
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The octopus was once considered much lower on the intelligence scale thanks to the opinions of one man: Aristotle

Whatever they are called, they are widely considered one of the smartest animals in the world. They have been seen navigating ...
GeekWire

What octopus intelligence can teach us about artificial intelligence — and aliens

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 ...
The Spokesman-Review

If an octopus is so smart, should you eat it?

Octopuses can open jars, use tools, solve puzzles and even recognize individual human faces staring back at them through aquarium glass. Should they serve as menu items, too? Whether stuffed into ...
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Is intelligence a human construct? “Octopus!” suggests its time to think differently about animals

In the new Prime documentary series “Octopus!” actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge spends an hour and a half narrating a story about an octopus named Doris that sets out on her own, falls in love and ...