The purple octopus that hung outside the Greek Cusina restaurant in downtown Portland became a city landmark. Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian (Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian) This story has been updated ...

Last night, a strange video appeared on Twitter: it looks like some sort of deep sea bloom — but then a tiny octopus squirts out and zooms away, changing colors from white to purple. What exactly are ...

Time ran out for the giant purple octopus mural Thursday morning in Walla Walla, Wash. By 7 a.m. PT, the giant sea creature that once blanketed the storefront of Inland Octopus, a toy shop on the town ...

Time ran out for the giant purple octopus mural Thursday morning in Walla Walla, Wash. By 7 a.m. PT, the giant sea creature that once blanketed the storefront of Inland Octopus, a toy shop on the town ...

In 2013, a team of geochemists off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica sent underwater vehicles to explore the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of seafloor 150 miles from land. They hoped to gather samples ...

Man, this Costa’s hummingbird legitimately looks like it has a shiny purple baby octopus attached to its face like the facehugger in Alien. I mean, look at how wacky it looks, it almost seems as if ...

WALLA WALLA -- A court hearing has been set in the lawsuit filed by a downtown toy store owner who is trying to save his giant, purple octopus mural on constitutional grounds. The hearing before Walla ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. This cute stuffed animal features a blue octopus who is ...

WALLA WALLA — A Walla Walla County Superior Court judge is deciding whether a purple octopus mural over a downtown Walla Walla toy store is art or a commercial sign. The Union-Bulletin reports Judge ...

— The city of Walla Walla sent a paint crew at dawn Thursday to paint over a purple octopus mural it said was an illegal sign for a toy store. After more than two years of court battles the octopus ...

What’s news in the Northwest today: WALLA WALLA, Wash. — A giant purple octopus is on the public comment agenda for today’s city council meeting in Walla Walla. It’s a mural that was painted over the ...