When we think of sea animals, we usually picture dolphins, whales, or sharks. But there’s one sea creature that’s quietly ...

Octopuses are rather bizarre creatures, often appearing more alien than other animals on our planet. They have a highly ...

As the team explained: “Dr. Christine Huffard, one of Caldwell’s former graduate students, led a study on the unique body patterns of Wunderpus photogenicus, an Indo-Pacific octopus species.

Scientists remotely surveying a previously unexplored area of the ocean located 80 miles southwest of Monterey, California, witnessed a magical spectacle. In the area around an underwater volcano at ...

Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...

Some members of an octopus species hunt cooperatively in groups with fish, a new study found — an indication that some octopuses have richer social lives than scientists understood.

But for Octopus briareus and many other octopus species, the story has a nasty ending. After a mother octopus lays a clutch of a few hundred eggs, she stops eating; she will die shortly after the eggs ...

Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa Rica, officials from the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Tuesday.

A new study found that some members of an octopus species hunt cooperatively in groups with fish. Video shows octopuses punching their companion fish to keep them on task and contributing to the hunt.

Dr. Beth Orcutt spent 10 years thinking about an octopus she saw near Costa Rica. She went back last year with a team and found at least 4 new species, 2 of which brood their eggs on hydrothermal ...

A dramatic surge in octopus numbers along the South West coast of the UK is being linked to climate change. The lucrative ...