In one of the internet’s most unexpected moments, Swedish musician Mattias Krantz spent six months teaching an octopus named Takoyaki (Tako) to play the piano. The 18-minute video has captivated ...

Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own. When scientists in Japan pinched an artificial appendage during experiments, octopuses recoiled in defense – swimming away, ...

Mattias Krantz is a YouTuber with a penchant for bonkers engineering and musical projects. A few months ago, he went into a wet market looking not for lunch, but for a potential prodigy. Krantz wanted ...

In this study, the authors use microCT to image an intact hatchling octopus and segment major organ systems, including the vascular, respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems. The resulting dataset ...

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Octopuses, along with their cephalopod cousins squids and cuttlefish, are considered to be some of the most intelligent invertebrates out there. They have large brains and are able to quickly master a ...

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