Equally mysterious and beautiful, octopuses are captivating creatures. There are over 300 octopus species, and they thrive in ...

Octopuses have gotten a reputation for being cunning camouflagers and intelligent creatures. But some are known for a more ominous reason: They're deadly. One group — the blue-ringed octopus (genus ...

Possibly the world's cutest octopus went on public display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Friday.Crowds surrounded the deep-sea cephalopod's tank this morning as people tried to get a first look.The ...

MOSS LANDING >> Hideous denizens live in the deep sea. But so does a cute wide-eyed, pink and squishy little octopus. The newly discovered, cartoon-like creature is so cute that “adorable” might ...

Two species of highly similar deep-sea octopuses are hard to tell apart — unless you look closely at their "warts," a new study finds. Never-before-seen adorable pink bumpy snailfish with funny little ...

Scientists have made a truly bizarre discovery on an expanse of cooled lava 150 miles west of Costa Rica and nearly two miles underwater. There, they laid eyes on more than a hundred female octopuses, ...

Hey, sailors! Welcome back to Animals Are Good: Cephalopod Week edition. Cephalopods, in case you’re wondering, are a class of mollusks to which octopus, squid, and cuttlefish belong. As the week ...

In October, explorers made a surprise discovery in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary – an octopus community near an undersea mountain. Readers of this column know that Davidson Seamount, which ...

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 ...