A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) swims off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea. (Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images) We named him Squirt — not because he was the smallest of the 16 ...

Unprecedented numbers of the common octopus have been found in British waters this year, but what’s behind the rare ‘bloom’?

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

Octopuses are fascinating animals—and serve as important model organisms in neuroscience, cognition research and developmental biology. To gain a deeper understanding of their biology and evolutionary ...

Milder weather led to a bloom in the invertebrates off the coast of Cornwall and south Devon, wildlife charity says ...

The eight-legged invertebrates were spotted off the British coast in their highest numbers since the 1950s, wildlife charity ...

Perhaps it’s time we stopped feeling quite so bad about eating octopus. Octopuses dine on other octopuses, too. And for the first time, that behavior has been caught on video in the common octopus in ...

In a delightful encounter along a beach in Wales, marine enthusiasts were treated to a rare sighting of a curled octopus. The captivating footage, captured by Ciara Taylor, a project assistant for the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. October is National Seafood Month, and I’ve typically written about local ...

Videos filmed by divers show that choking, blinding and sacrificing limbs are all in the cephalopods’ repertoire. By Joshua Rapp Learn The conger eel was the favorite, weighing at least three times ...

Heather Leon has made the same walk through Cherry Grove Point in North Myrtle Beach dozens of times, but her visit last week came with an unusual surprise. “I was taking a walk with my mom when ...