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THEY sure look strange, but could octopuses be extraterrestrials? 33 scientists think so. From being able to switch colour and shape to guessing footie results, the eight-armed sea-dwellers aren’t ...

Hollywood tends to depict aliens as other-worldly, monster-like beings, but they may have more in common with humans than we initially thought. New research by scientists from the University of Oxford ...