The blanket octopus uses venomous man o’ war tentacles as weapons, doubling its reach and surviving in the open ocean.

The dumbo octopus is an adorable little octopus that gets its name from their Dumbo-like ears. Read here to learn more.

Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa Rica, officials from the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Tuesday. An ...

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Octopuses already exist in a strange corner of the animal world, with soft bodies, problem-solving brains, and the ability to ...

On certain remote shores in northern Australia, the line between sea and land is not as firm as it looks. When the tide drains away, a small, mottled octopus hauls itself out of the shallows and ...

A team of scientists working off the coast of Costa Rica have identified four previously unknown deep-sea octopus species in the vicinity of hydrothermal springs on the ocean floor. They also ...