Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...

The palm-size creature was spotted and collected during a research expedition more than a decade ago, but scientists have ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Go diving into the intertidal waters of the Great Barrier ...

Four new species of deep-sea octopus have been discovered on underwater mountains around 3 kilometres down in the Pacific off Costa Rica, according to Schmidt Ocean Institute. A radical new theory ...

CHICAGO — A deep-sea robot gliding over the ocean floor near the Galápagos Islands captured footage of something researchers had never seen before: a tiny, vivid blue octopus no bigger than a golf ...

It could be easy to miss a blob the size of a golf ball. But its blue hue—the rarest color in nature—stood out against the sand, grabbing researchers’ attention. It wasn’t a blob but an adorable blue ...

Octopuses have spent the last few decades quietly upending what scientists thought they knew about intelligence outside the ...

A remotely operated vehicle gliding 700 meters below the surface of the equatorial Atlantic has filmed one of the ocean’s ...

A team of molecular and cellular chemists and biologists from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, has found that at least one type of octopus has taste sensors on its ...