SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian scientists have discovery an octopus species that carries around coconut shells to hide in when threatened, behavior the researchers said was the first example of ...

An octopus was captured on video carrying two halves of a broken coconut shell across the ocean floor, then assembling them around itself. It may be evidence that the creatures are intelligent enough ...

Scientists once thought of tool use as a defining feature of humans. That's until examples of tool use came in from other primates, along with birds and an array of other mammals. Now, a report in the ...