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.

What defining changes in the genetic code took place after we separated from our most recent ancestor? Looking at the places where all living humans share a novel genetic signature but the ...

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 ...

But, as the eLife study show, humans share much more in common with Neanderthals than those small percentages indicate. This additional sharing can be traced back to a common ancestor of ...

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 ...

Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.

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 ...

But how many hearts does an octopus have? © Alexander Semenov via Getty The systemic heart of the giant Pacific octopus ...

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 ...

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.

A woman was bitten by the deadly blue-ringed octopus while swimming off a popular beach in Sydney. The woman, who is in her 30s, was nipped after the tiny creature fell out of a shell she picked ...