A small octopus living over open sand has few rocks or reefs to use as cover. Its answer is a moving disguise: bands appear ...

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 ...

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

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

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in all of the ocean. The blue-ringed octopus (genus Hapalochlaena) is small ...

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

Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) tentacles up close and personal. Octopus tentacles have rows of powerful suckers that can 'taste' the water and form water-tight seals underwater, allowing them to grasp ...

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

Argonaut (Argonauta argo) must go through to send baby argonauts out into the world. This octopus species lives in open water ...