YouTuber and musician Mattias Krantz spent six months teaching an octopus how to play a custom-built piano. The process required a lot of creative problem-solving skills, including motivating the ...

By combining custom engineering with behavioral science, Swedish YouTuber Mattias Krantz taught an octopus named Tako to play the piano.

The white package that arrived at Mattias Krantz’s home in Sweden after a five-hour flight contained an octopus that Krantz saved from becoming someone’s meal. Krantz’s hopes for the octopus, which he ...

Octopuses possess great problem-solving skills (such as opening jars and untying knots), and are champions of camouflaging.

Nature doesn’t just surprise us; it prototypes ideas we’d swear came from a movie. Some animal skills look like planned ...

A creature of soft body, eight arms with one brilliant brain, short lived creature, yet it thinks in a certain way that rivals some mammals. It's an octopus that has around 500 million neurons which ...

A South Coast lawmaker is pushing a bill that would ban the commercial farming of octopus for food, citing ethical concerns about the treatment of what he says are one of the ocean’s most intelligent ...