Octopuses appear to deliberately throw debris, sometimes directed at other octopuses, according to a study publishing November 9 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE led by Peter Godfrey-Smith at the ...

Octopuses, which are remarkably intelligent marine creatures, generally avoid contact with other animals and are thought to live solitary lives. However, the situation is quite different 50 feet below ...

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...

A female octopus throws debris that hits a male attempting to mate with her. The material thrown is silt, vigor is high, and thrower’s coloration pattern is dark uniform. Credit: Godfrey-Smith et al., ...

The more scientists study octopuses, the more we learn how fascinating these creatures really are. Octopuses are incredibly intelligent, displaying all kinds of amazing behavior like completing ...

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Anyone who was glued to the World Series will know how important throwing things is to human life. What's the game without a pitch, right? But only a handful of animals are known to chuck objects, ...

Octopuses appear to deliberately throw debris, sometimes directed at other octopuses, according to a new study. Octopuses appear to deliberately throw debris, sometimes directed at other octopuses, ...