Rearing the babies will provide scientists with a rare opportunity to learn about the typically deeper-water creatures ...

It's one of the most bizarre creatures on Earth, and not just because it looks so different. The octopus can camouflage itself in a flash; squeeze its entire body through a one-inch hole; and their ...

Sometimes, a brilliant idea can begin in an unlikely place. For Shelby Van Pelt, her brilliant idea began by going down "a YouTube rabbit hole," she said. "Like, a naughty octopus rabbit hole," Van ...

Swedish YouTuber Mattias Krantz is known for his unconventional musical projects, but his latest feat takes things to a whole new level. He spent six months investigating whether an octopus — a highly ...

The octopus is one of the coolest animals in the sea. For starters, they are invertebrates. That means they don’t have backbones like humans, lions, turtles and birds. That may sound unusual, but ...

A seven-arm octopus was spotted in Monterey Bay in Nov. 6, 2025; the 'rarely seen' deep-sea octopus was spotted by ...

A British holiday maker has struck up a friendship with a little octopus in Cyprus – meeting underwater every day. Matthew ...

Among the 15 shortlisted docs, 'My Octopus Teacher’ captures the unusual bond between a burned-out filmmaker and a cephalopod. By Carita Rizzo Celebrated for his 2000 film The Great Dance, South ...

Most people who eat octopus prefer it immobile, cut into pieces and nicely grilled or otherwise cooked. For some, though, the wiggly, sucker-covered arms of a live octopus are a treat — even though ...

Not knowing how to run. Aside from being a charming poem, it’s also an exercise in putting ourselves in the perspective of multipedal animals. It’s easy enough, as humans, to imagine quadripedal ...

The white package that arrived at Mattias Krantz’s home in Sweden after a five-hour flight contained an octopus that Krantz saved from becoming someone’s meal. The white package that arrived at ...