As his last act, the small but mighty paterfamilias gives an arm and a life to the cause of reproduction. 1. Name game This species of octopus is also known as the paper nautilus (the shell it ...

Octopuses are fascinating. Their eight arms gracefully whip through water and can accomplish extraordinary tasks like using ...

And, as the Los Angeles Times importantly noted, the bill also bans business owners and operators from "knowingly participating" in the sale of an octopus that has specifically been raised to be ...

Bizarre new footage shows the moment an octopus punches a fish for refusing to help it hunt. Scientists have found that the tentacled sea creatures deliberately lead fish on inter-species hunting ...

Blanket octopuses are extremely rare, having been seen only a handful of times in the past decade. It is not a single species ...

It also prevents business owners and operators from knowingly participating in the sale of an octopus — regardless of its provenance — that has been raised to be eaten by people. The text of ...

Believing argonauts used their long front tentacles as sails, early naturalists named the cephalopods after the navigators of ...

The study, which was published in the journal Nature on Monday, focuses on the species of octopus cyanea maraud, also known as the big blue or day octopus, which were found to hunt with groups ...

The Giant Pacific Octopus is a mollusk and belongs to the same family as snails and clams. They can be found more than 330 ...

Inky the Octopus before his escape at the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Napier, New Zealand. Image courtesy of the Associated Press "Octopuses are among the most intelligent, complex life on ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel announced the arrival of its newest resident, a playful and ...