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Crab-Hunting Octopuses Gazing Into Mirrors Demonstrate A Kind Of Spatial Awareness Thought To Be Unique To VertebratesClose-up image of Odysseus’s first encounter with a mirror, interacting with the object. (This was the very first pilot octopus in the study)

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Crab-Hunting Octopuses Gazing Into Mirrors Demonstrate A Kind Of Spatial Awareness Thought To Be Unique To VertebratesClose-up image of Odysseus’s first encounter with a mirror, interacting with the object. (This was the very first pilot octopus in the study)
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Crab-Hunting Octopuses Gazing Into Mirrors Demonstrate A Kind Of Spatial Awareness Thought To Be Unique To Vertebrates

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Cretaceous Octopuses Were Kraken-Like Giants That Reached Up To 19 Meters And May Have Feasted On MosasaursAn artist's impression of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, the largest octopus ever found, larger than the mosasaurs with which it shared the Cretaceous oceans.

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Cretaceous Octopuses Were Kraken-Like Giants That Reached Up To 19 Meters And May Have Feasted On MosasaursAn artist's impression of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, the largest octopus ever found, larger than the mosasaurs with which it shared the Cretaceous oceans.
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Cretaceous Octopuses Were Kraken-Like Giants That Reached Up To 19 Meters And May Have Feasted On Mosasaurs

clock-iconApril 23, 2026

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This Fossil Once Rewrote Everything We Knew About Octopuses. Turns Out, It's Not An Octopus At AllPalaeoart recreation of Pohlsepia mazonensis, dead on the ocean floor.

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This Fossil Once Rewrote Everything We Knew About Octopuses. Turns Out, It's Not An Octopus At AllPalaeoart recreation of Pohlsepia mazonensis, dead on the ocean floor.
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This Fossil Once Rewrote Everything We Knew About Octopuses. Turns Out, It's Not An Octopus At All

clock-iconApril 8, 2026

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What Aristotle Got Wrong About The OctopusDoflane's octopus is a bright lilac color with tentacles and suckers on the background of the seabed.

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What Aristotle Got Wrong About The OctopusDoflane's octopus is a bright lilac color with tentacles and suckers on the background of the seabed.
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What Aristotle Got Wrong About The Octopus

clock-iconOctober 16, 2025
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3½ Tales Of Daring Animal Escapesmugshot-like images of an octopus called Inky, a flamingo called Pink Floyd, and an otter called Louie

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3½ Tales Of Daring Animal Escapesmugshot-like images of an octopus called Inky, a flamingo called Pink Floyd, and an otter called Louie
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3½ Tales Of Daring Animal Escapes

clock-iconAugust 13, 2025
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Ever Wondered What It’s Like To Be “Hugged” By An Octopus? We’ve Got Just The Video For Youstill taken from video footage of a Maori octopus with its suckers on the camera lens

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Ever Wondered What It’s Like To Be “Hugged” By An Octopus? We’ve Got Just The Video For Youstill taken from video footage of a Maori octopus with its suckers on the camera lens
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Ever Wondered What It’s Like To Be “Hugged” By An Octopus? We’ve Got Just The Video For You

clock-iconApril 22, 2025
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The Warty Octopus Gets Wartier The Deeper It Lives – Why?warty octopus on the seabed, purple with bumpy skin

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The Warty Octopus Gets Wartier The Deeper It Lives – Why?warty octopus on the seabed, purple with bumpy skin
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The Warty Octopus Gets Wartier The Deeper It Lives – Why?

clock-iconMarch 19, 2025
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Scanning A 165-Million-Year-Old Octopus Fossil Revealed Surprising Features In Proteroctopusa fossil octopus showing body and legs

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Scanning A 165-Million-Year-Old Octopus Fossil Revealed Surprising Features In Proteroctopusa fossil octopus showing body and legs
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Scanning A 165-Million-Year-Old Octopus Fossil Revealed Surprising Features In Proteroctopus

clock-iconMarch 14, 2025
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Toxic Love: Male Blue-lined Octopuses Use Venom To Stop Sexual Partners Eating ThemThe astonishing color of the blue-lined octopus represents a warning to potential predators, but maybe also to those of the opposite sex.

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Toxic Love: Male Blue-lined Octopuses Use Venom To Stop Sexual Partners Eating ThemThe astonishing color of the blue-lined octopus represents a warning to potential predators, but maybe also to those of the opposite sex.
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Toxic Love: Male Blue-lined Octopuses Use Venom To Stop Sexual Partners Eating Them

clock-iconMarch 10, 2025

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How Do Octopuses Control 8 Arms? Scientists Discover Strange Segmented Nervous Systeman octopus with its eight arms splayed against the glass of a tank

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How Do Octopuses Control 8 Arms? Scientists Discover Strange Segmented Nervous Systeman octopus with its eight arms splayed against the glass of a tank
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How Do Octopuses Control 8 Arms? Scientists Discover Strange Segmented Nervous System

clock-iconJanuary 15, 2025
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IFLScience The Big Questions: Are Octopuses Sentient?article image

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IFLScience The Big Questions: Are Octopuses Sentient?article image
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IFLScience The Big Questions: Are Octopuses Sentient?

clock-iconOctober 17, 2024
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All Octopuses Are Venomous, So How Are They Using It?an octopus beak between its arms as it lowers in the water

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All Octopuses Are Venomous, So How Are They Using It?an octopus beak between its arms as it lowers in the water
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All Octopuses Are Venomous, So How Are They Using It?

clock-iconAugust 28, 2024
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What Octopus Skin Can Do To Protect Us From The Suncartoon illustration of a pale pink octopus lying in a hammock on a beach, he's wearing sunglasses and a straw hat

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What Octopus Skin Can Do To Protect Us From The Suncartoon illustration of a pale pink octopus lying in a hammock on a beach, he's wearing sunglasses and a straw hat
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What Octopus Skin Can Do To Protect Us From The Sun

clock-iconJuly 24, 2024
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Three Hearts, Blue Blood, And Venom 1,000 Times Stronger Than Cyanide – We're Talking About Octopusesan octopus on a rock

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Three Hearts, Blue Blood, And Venom 1,000 Times Stronger Than Cyanide – We're Talking About Octopusesan octopus on a rock
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Three Hearts, Blue Blood, And Venom 1,000 Times Stronger Than Cyanide – We're Talking About Octopuses

clock-iconApril 18, 2024
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How Do You Age An Octopus? Count Their "Rings" Like TreesA small and young brown and white octopus on a white ground layer with a large brown rock behind.

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How Do You Age An Octopus? Count Their "Rings" Like TreesA small and young brown and white octopus on a white ground layer with a large brown rock behind.
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How Do You Age An Octopus? Count Their "Rings" Like Trees

clock-iconApril 15, 2024
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