A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise 3,000 tonnes of an octopus a year, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually. My research ...

For decades, scientists have assumed so-called gloomy octopuses (or octopus tetricus) were just a bunch of loners. But now there's evidence these marine creatures hang out in small octo-cities, ...

Atlantis is almost certainly a mythical land that never truly existed. But the same cannot be said for Octlantis. This underwater ‘city’, originally discovered back in 2009, lies off the coast of ...

Octopuses, once shrouded in mystery and viewed as alien undersea creatures, are getting a new reputation as research illuminates that they’re far more social than previously believed. A new book ...

With their quick-change camouflage and high level of intelligence, it’s not surprising that the public and scientific experts alike are fascinated by octopuses. Their abilities to recognize faces, ...

It turns out that the urge to hurl something at an irritating neighbor is not confined to land animals. A study published on Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE shows that octopuses of at least one ...

Karma, a giant Pacific Octopus at New England Aquarium. Source: Tia Strombeck, used with permission. Octopuses are amazing animals. They're extremely intelligent and highly emotional, sentient, ...

Every now and then I run across a seemingly random fact that takes up residence in my head -- like elephants can't jump. (It's physically impossible for them.) Or the fact that certain types of trees ...

A solitary octopus in an aquarium. Researchers have identified a colony of gloomy octopuses off the coast of Australia in a surprising scientific discovery. An international team of marine biologists ...