A rare blanket octopus, known for the web-like membrane between its arms. The species made an unusual appearance near Almyropotamos Beach on Evia, Greece. Credit: Flickr / Fish and Wildlife Research ...

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The octopus is one of the coolest animals in the sea. For starters, they are invertebrates. That means they don’t have backbones like humans, lions, turtles and birds. That may sound unusual, but ...

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Thomas Mulligan investigates the groundbreaking discovery of complex neural activity in cephalopods, revealing that these deep-sea creatures may experience vivid dream states similar to humans.

The palm-size creature was spotted and collected during a research expedition more than a decade ago, but scientists have just identified it as a previously undescribed species ...

How the octopus in Netflix's "Remarkably Bright Creatures" was inspired by a real-life octopus at Vancouver Aquarium.

Record numbers linked to warming waters is mixed news for fishers, with shellfish catches down but octopus catches booming Record numbers of octopuses found off the south-west coast of England last ...

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 ...

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It could be easy to miss a blob the size of a golf ball. But its blue hue—the rarest color in nature—stood out against the sand, grabbing researchers’ attention. It wasn’t a blob but an adorable blue ...

An octopus about the size of a golf ball was first spotted in 2015 near Darwin Island. A new study gives it both a formal description and a name. The octopus was first spotted in 2015 during a ...