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 ...

Octopuses may be even smarter than we thought. Researchers at Dartmouth found that octopuses can learn to use mirrors to locate food hidden behind them—a skill previously seen only in vertebrates like ...

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The discovery of a blue octopus about the size of a golf ball has delighted marine biologists and the public with its rarity – and its big-eyed cute factor. The octopus was found 5,800 feet deep in ...

A tiny blue octopus about the size of a golf ball was discovered off the coast of the Galápagos Islands. Thousands of animals, including this little octopus, named Microeledone galapagensis, call the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sharp, well-lit octopus centered with excellent tentacle detail© MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) via YouTube — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many home cooks shy away from octopus, but with a little patience, you can enjoy perfectly cooked, Greek-inspired grilled octopus ...

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 ...

Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...