An Oklahoma boy and his father, who are raising a pet octopus and 50 octopus babies, have captured the hearts and attention of over 400,000 TikTok followers. It all began with 9-year-old Cal Clifford ...

It all started because his 9-year-old son wanted a pet. Not just any pet. An octopus. Specifically, a California two-spot octopus, also known as a bimac. So, Cameron Clifford, a 36-year-old dentist in ...

Is it too early to shop for Halloween costumes? Even if it is, you could buy this one in time to celebrate World Octopus Day, which falls a few weeks earlier on October 8. Get it? You know, because ...

(AP) — The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus. The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an ...

EDMOND, Okla. (CNN) - An Oklahoma boy had dreamed of owning an octopus since he was 2, but when his dream became reality, he suddenly ended up with 50 of them when his pet gave birth. Cal Clifford, 9, ...

A 9-year-old Oklahoma boy's unorthodox choice of pet has gone viral on TikTok as he's adopted an octopus that he named Terrance. Cal Clifford's parents said their son wanted an octopus as a pet more ...

It's not all that unusual to see octopus on a restaurant menu. But an octopus as a family pet? Cameron Clifford of Edmond, Okla. says his 9-year-old son Cal is a huge fan of the eight-legged creatures ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Adi Khen, a coral reefs researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It has been transcribed, condensed, and edited for clarity. We often ...