The Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea are separated by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, one of the biggest in the world, covering some 530,000 cubic miles. That means that creatures on one side of the ice ...

Octopuses are among the smartest animals in the ocean, and we still have a lot more to learn about them. Here's what a career ...

Award-winning author and ocean activist Mark Leiren-Young is bringing the mysterious world of octopuses to young readers in ...

A new bill would ban the sale or distribution of farm-raised octopus, citing environmental impacts and inhumane treatment of ...

To intentionally be a nuisance to others requires the intelligence to take the other’s perspective in the first place. Are animals smart enough to be jerks?

One of Wen-Sung’s biggest discoveries has been that not all octopus brains are the same. The design, level of folding and size of the visual processing centre of an octopus brain, are influenced by ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here ...

Over 10,000 animals live in the Moscow Zoo. Comfortable conditions have been created for each of them, as close to the ...

While modern humans are only Homo sapiens, there are many different species of octopus that live in a variety ... legs and huge eyes is more like a giant data processing center than a brain ...

Their damp, humid conditions mean they can be a haven for over 200 different species of bryophytes ... This beast is the largest bird of prey in the UK. Although it went extinct in the country ...