The coconut octopus carries its home across the seafloor in one of the strangest ways imaginable, leaving itself completely ...

The Long Island Aquarium is asking the public to help name its newest resident – a Giant Pacific octopus.

Plans for the world's first octopus farm have been abandoned. As the controversial project folds, several nations and US states are banning octopus farming before it even begins.

The octopus is a biological oddity. It can use tools, open jars, and its complex nervous system supports as many neurons as a ...

In one of his latest videos, he captured a mesmerizing Day Octopus that has viewers convinced it looks more like an alien ...

A newly discovered change in ribosomal RNA makes protein production more precise, potentially safeguarding these cephalopods’ ...

Now, scientists have discovered that the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) can also learn to use mirrors, researchers report June 3 in Current Biology. When brainstorming octopus ...

After five years of public outcry and regulatory disputes, a Spanish seafood company will no longer build the 1,000-tank ...

When a predator closes in, one ocean creature does something no other animal on Earth can match: it becomes a completely different species entirely. The question is how it decides which one to be.

Dogs are usually the ones making unexpected friends, but this time the invitation came from beneath the waves. When a curious ...