As predictable as the swallows returning to Capistrano, recent breakthroughs in AI have been accompanied by a new wave of fears of some version of “the singularity,” that point in runaway ...

Lobsters, octopus and crabs will be recognized as sentient beings in the U.K. after new research suggested they have a central nervous system and can feel pain. The U.K. government announced Friday ...

The world is full of brilliant creatures, many of whom are smarter than us. One of them is the octopus. This creature can open doors, release itself from jars, turn on lights, and manage to control ...

A new animal welfare bill moving through UK parliament will now include crabs, octopuses, and lobsters after an independent research review concluded decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs should ...

A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise 3,000 tonnes of an octopus a year, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually. My research ...

Unprecedented numbers of the common octopus have been found in British waters this year, but what’s behind the rare ‘bloom’? View on euronews ...

According to Howard, Vault 120 was inspired by the BioShock games, which likely means that players would've gone through a madhouse of Vault Dwellers driven insane by their circumstances. What makes ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

A two-month-old octopus tries to unscrew the lid of a jar to get hold of its content, a crab, at Denmark's Aquarium in Copenhagen in 2004. Credit - Jorgen Jessen—AFP/Getty Images As predictable as the ...