Most of us think of the brain as a single command center that controls everything the body does. Octopuses work differently.

Animal intelligence stories travel fast, and tidy myths travel fastest. An octopus unscrews a jar, a parrot says hello, a bee dances, and many people leap to one-line conclusions about genius, ...

California two-spot octopuses learned to track prey they could see only as a mirror reflection, then moved toward the actual ...