Can you imagine spending your entire life without ever touching the floor? Well, that’s the reality for this octopus. Pelagic ...

When a blanket octopus swims, it creates a kaleidoscope of colors twirling underwater. It’s a rainbow of beauty as it glides through the sea. It’s gorgeous, and it’s almost never seen by humans in ...

With ear-like fins that flap gracefully through the water, the Dumbo octopus in this YouTube video looks like it waltzed straight out of an animation studio. But don’t let their cute facade fool you; ...

In 2017, a remotely operated vehicle descended the rocky slopes of the Caroline Seamount in the Western Pacific and collected ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's well known that the octopus is extremely intelligent, and that they often are friendly with people. The Weather Channel ...

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in all of the ocean.

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...

A giant "kraken" octopus may have been one of the ocean's largest predators around 100 million years ago, a new study has suggested Scientists analyzed jaw fossils to find that some octopus species ...

While climate change has led to an increase in the abundance of octopuses, heat stress from projected ocean warming could impair their vision and impact the survivability of the species. While climate ...

Through sexual selection, the characteristics of a larger female and smaller male have evolved so dramatically that the male blanket octopuses are considered to be dwarf animals.© Sam ...