Al and Audi McGlashan were shocked to reel in a line and see a deadly blue ringed octopus attached. Video transcript. Come on ...

Some harlequin frogs have lost their poison—and their ability to defend themselves. Scientists are on the case.

Thomas Mulligan examines the potent neurotoxins of the blue-ringed octopus to reveal how such a small creature can pose a ...

A man in New South Wales, Australia, recently had a rare encounter with a lyrebird, a creature that can imitate almost any ...

A recently published study in the journal Zootaxa identified a new species of tiny octopus, which they named Microeledone galapagensis. The specimen was collected in 2015 when deep-sea researchers ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — A deep-sea robot gliding over the ocean floor near the Galápagos Islands captured footage of something researchers had never seen before: a tiny, vivid blue octopus no bigger than a golf ...