Do octopus brains work like humans’ — or is there another way to be smart?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01302-4

Octopuses shown to map their visual landscape much like humans do

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-octopuses-shown-visual-landscape-humans.html

Octopuses Can Rewire Their Brains to Brave Chilly Waters

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopuses-edit-their-rna-in-response-to-water-temperature-changes-180982357/

Octopus brain and human brain share the same 'jumping genes'

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-octopus-brain-human-genes.html

'Mind-boggling' scrambled genome found in octopus and squid. It could explain their smarts.

https://www.livescience.com/squid-octopus-genome-brains

'Very Intelligent Animals': Israeli Researchers Discover Octopuses' Impressive Cognitive Abilities

https://www.haaretz.com/1.10655964

Squid Brains Are Nearly as Complex as Dog Brains, Researchers Claim

https://www.sciencealert.com/squid-brains-are-nearly-as-complex-as-dog-brains

What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/octopuses-on-ecstasy-prefer-each-other-to-chewbacca/570763/

Octopuses Do Something Really Strange to Their Genes

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/octopuses-do-something-really-strange-to-their-genes/522024/

Studying cephalopods may illuminate the evolution of brains of all sorts

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21660955-studying-cephalopods-may-illuminate-evolution-brains-all-sorts-tentacles

For an Octopus, Seeing the Light Doesn’t Require Eyes

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/science/for-an-octopus-seeing-the-light-doesnt-require-eyes.html?_r=0&referrer=

Do lobsters and other invertebrates feel pain? New research has some answers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/do-lobsters-and-other-invertebrates-feel-pain-new-research-has-some-answers/2014/03/07/f026ea9e-9e59-11e3-b8d8-94577ff66b28_story.html