Octopuses

While eight new Paul the Octopuses go head-to-head during the Women's World Cup to choose a successor for the late tipster, his legacy has been preserved on celluloid, reports Der Spiegel.

Planet Sport: Diego Maradona looks to quell Neymar row 2011

While eight new Paul the Octopuses go head-to-head during the Women's World Cup to choose a successor for the late tipster, his legacy has been preserved on celluloid, reports Der Spiegel.

Planet Sport: Diego Maradona looks to quell Neymar row 2011

Octopuses are venomous, but at the time no one was really sure how toxic their bite was, because so few people had been bitten by one.

Michael Gruber explains the inspiration behind his 2007 intellectual thriller, The Book of Air and Shadows 2010

Octopuses have big brain, but not a highly developed nervous system.

Boing Boing 2009

This is helpful, since as Maggie Koerth-Baker writes at Boing Boing, Octopuses are basically balls of delicious protein.

The mimic octopus, or my new favorite mollusk (Sorry, Paul!) Melissa Bell 2010

Octopuses are not particularly long-living animals.

David Mizejewski: Paul the Psychic Octopus Is Dead David Mizejewski 2010

On a forgotten page of nytimes. com yesterday, wedged in between stories entitled “Liberals Attempt Overthrow” and “Octopuses Taught to ‘Read,’” ran an unexpected wine story.

2009 April | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

Octopuses as intelligent animals is that they are different from us (different branch on tree of live, different evolutionary paths).

Boing Boing 2009

Mr Slater added: 'Octopuses are very intelligent and they like to be stimulated and busy.'

Boing Boing 2008

I too have had amazing interactions with Octopuses while diving, they are so intelligent and curious!

octopus steals my video camera and swims off with it (while it's Recording) on Vimeo 2010