An image shared online in December 2025 was an authentic drone picture of a gargantuan octopus spotted in the Gulf of Mexico.

Most octopuses get around primarily by crawling along the seafloor. And if they need to get somewhere in a hurry, they can employ their funnels to jet away like their pelagic cousins, squid.

Legend has it, Ringo Starr wrote Abbey Road’s “Octopus’s Garden” after a sailing trip in Sardinia with the late Pink Panther actor, Peter Sellers. Sellers told Ringo about how octopuses liked ...

An authentic photograph shows the body of a massive octopus washed up on the coast of Indonesia. Rating: Fake (About this rating?) Context: The image was generated by artificial intelligence. In ...

I don't know about you, but when I hear the phrase "robot octopus," all I want to do is curl up in a fetal position and rock back-and-forth. This either sounds like the beginning of one of those ...

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Lucy Purdy was walking through the countryside of Dartmoor in Devon, United Kingdom when, along the way, she sniffed the smell of rotting flesh. When she proceeded to investigate where the foul smell ...

"An octopus is super elastic, and almost gooey when it moves." By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor But in the case of Hank, creating a color-changing, shape-shifting “gooey” creature that couldn’t follow ...