These five research-backed insights show why the octopus remains one of the most extraordinary minds in the animal kingdom.

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Octopuses are fascinating in more ways than one. Beyond their impressive intelligence, they also have other unique features like three hearts, an amazing ability to camouflage, and a central brain ...

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

Jenny Evans / Getty Images Octopuses are capable of sophisticated tasks, from solving puzzles to decorating their dens to remembering people's faces. So when a company in Spain announced that it ...

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 ...

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