A small, two-spotted octopus did something no invertebrate has been recorded doing before: it looked into a mirror, processed ...
"Our work suggests that octopuses might also have internal maps, an internal representation of space." ...
Octopuses can understand mirror images. A research team at the University of Fribourg has taught three octopuses to use a mirror to accurately locate and target food outside their field of vision.
If you were to make a case for evidence of extraterrestrial life on Earth, you would probably use octopuses as an example.
Octopuses are remarkably intelligent creatures, as was demonstrated by Inky the Octopus's famous escape from the National Aquarium of New Zealand through a drainpipe back to sea in 2016. A new ...