If we go far enough back in evolutionary history, we encounter the last known common ancestor of humans and cephalopods: a primitive wormlike animal with minimal intelligence and simple eyespots.

To understand how aliens might think, Dominic Sivitilli went to the bottom of the sea to find the closest thing: an octopus. Its sophisticated nervous systems and sensitive suckers allow it to do ...

Many major technology players are [Frigorificos de Camarinas, Galveston Shrimp Company, Pescanova Hellas, Thai Union Group] have been looking into Octopus as a way to increase their market share ...

Still, the Nature report does appear to extend the time at which these two groups of human ancestors co-existed -- to at least 500,000 years, Trinkaus said. And what of the erectus specimen's ...

A set of new studies from the University of Utah and elsewhere found that human ancestors and relatives started eating an increasingly grassy diet 3.5 million years ago. The studies included ...

The unnamed woman in her 30s was swimming at Chinamans Beach in New South Wales when she was bitten on the stomach by a ...

Along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material ...

An octopus' brain is on the same wavelength as ... In captivity they can learn to solve puzzles, open jars - and squirt humans they don't like. They are as smart as the average dog.

Stone fragments produced by macaques in Thailand have been found to bear similarities to early human ancestor tools unearthed in some of the earliest archaeological sites in East Africa ...

Another unusual aspect of the blanket octopus: It’s immune to the stinging cells of the highly dangerous (to humans at least) jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war, which it uses to its advantage ...