Get ready to pick your jaw up off the floor when you see Tako in this viral video of an octopus playing piano with Swedish musician Mattias Krantz.

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish ...

The white package that arrived at Mattias Krantz’s home in Sweden after a five-hour flight contained an octopus that Krantz saved from becoming someone’s meal. Krantz’s hopes for the octopus, which he ...