Giant Pacific octopuses at the Seattle Aquarium learned to tell two people apart even when both wore identical uniforms, ...

Researchers found fossils suggesting that these early octopuses could have reached 19 meters in legnth. Their fossil jaws ...

Discover how octopuses challenge our understanding of intelligence with their unique brains, autonomous arms, and potential ...

A CRUEL skipper kept his crew in squalid conditions and gorged on doughnuts while feeding them only bananas and potatoes. Tom ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

The palm-size creature was spotted and collected during a research expedition more than a decade ago, but scientists have ...

How the octopus in Netflix's "Remarkably Bright Creatures" was inspired by a real-life octopus at Vancouver Aquarium.

Record numbers linked to warming waters is mixed news for fishers, with shellfish catches down but octopus catches booming Record numbers of octopuses found off the south-west coast of England last ...

Nearly 1,800 meters beneath the surface of the Pacific, a remotely operated submersible was creeping along the slope of a Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in ...

While on a deep-sea expedition in the Galapagos in 2015, scientists found a golf-ball sized, short-armed blue octopus. In a recent study, they confirmed that it’s new to science. The newly described ...

An octopus about the size of a golf ball was first spotted in 2015 near Darwin Island. A new study gives it both a formal description and a name. The octopus was first spotted in 2015 during a ...

The discovery of a blue octopus about the size of a golf ball has delighted marine biologists and the public with its rarity – and its big-eyed cute factor. The octopus was found 5,800 feet deep in ...