The study, published in Science, reconstructs the family tree of mollusks and provides a genome-based perspective on their ...

While an octopus-dominated future may seem "improbable ... place them at the top of the evolutionary heap, but there are a lot of variables involved that could waylay any hopes of an octo-centric ...

The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? Philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the startling evolutionary ...