The seas of Earth are facing an uncertain time, with oil drilling, coral bleaching events, and plastic pollution. However, ...

Some octopuses can leave the water for brief periods, but why is the octopus purposefully crossing the beach to squeeze into ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

Did you know octopuses are highly intelligent animals with the ability to problem-solve complex puzzles – and even change ...

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around eight inches), relatively short arms, bell-shaped body, pale coloring, and tendency to hover over the seafloor, and you’ve got a cephalopod ...

We read Katherine Courage's book "Octopus!" and discovered that the octopus is even weirder than it looks. A special thanks to NOAA and professor of marine biology at the Alaska Pacific University ...

I am intrigued that the octopus can be found in our Southwest Florida waters. The most common variety found in our waters is the Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus briareus). The octopus is a master of ...

Researchers in New Zealand captured the odd pairing on video, but they still don’t know how to explain the behavior ...

Octopuses have a large nervous system, with the average octopus having about 500 million neurons or brain cells. That puts it in the same “brain range” as smaller mammals such as dogs.