In a delightful encounter along a beach in Wales, marine enthusiasts were treated to a rare sighting of a curled octopus. The captivating footage, captured by Ciara Taylor, a project assistant for the ...

Emma Knight’s recent coming-of-age bestseller “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus” has been set up as a TV series at Amazon’s MGM Television. Based on the book of the same name, the series is ...

Videos filmed by divers show that choking, blinding and sacrificing limbs are all in the cephalopods’ repertoire. By Joshua Rapp Learn The conger eel was the favorite, weighing at least three times ...

The nutritional biology of common octopus paralarvae is a rapidly advancing field that integrates physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Paralarvae, representing the early, planktonic stage ...

It’s not every day that scientists discover a new species of octopus, but that is exactly what has happened off the coast of western Australia. During a CSIRO research expedition to the Carnarvon ...

Monitoring and studying wildlife as closely as the Blue Planet II crew do in order to make the show, they're occasionally privy to never before observed creatures and behaviours. We saw that in ...

Octopuses can use any of their arms to perform tasks, but tend to use a particular arm, or arms, for specific tasks. This finding, presented in a paper in Scientific Reports, reveals more about the ...