But a federal extermination program slashed their numbers to the breaking point. By the 1960s gray wolves were finally protected under the predecessor law to the Endangered Species Act. They'd been ...

After a moment, the octopus climbs out of the shell. Its body is the size of your thumb, its arms perhaps three times that. As it moves onto the sand, it turns a matching shade of dark gray.

The deepest ever sighting of an octopus has been made by cameras on the Indian Ocean floor. The animal was spotted 7,000m down in the Java Trench - almost 2km deeper than the previous reliable ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

News that the world's first commercial octopus farm is closer to becoming reality has been met with dismay by scientists and conservationists. They argue such intelligent "sentient" creatures ...

The Southern blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa) is found up to 50 metres deep along Australia's southern coastline, including around Tasmania. It reaches about 22 centimetres long and its ...

John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman. His latest book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Allen Lane). The world the party expected to join when it came to ...

This was proven experimentally in 2011 when researchers tested whether an octopus could learn to guide one of its arms through a maze to reach food. The maze was designed so that the arm would have to ...

Octopus can be tough if not tenderised before cooking. The traditional way to tenderise the meat is to hurl it against rocks; an easier method is to simmer it for an hour. After pre-cooking, grill ...

Octopus Energy has gone from a newcomer in the energy market to the biggest electricity supplier in just eight years. In that time, it has repeatedly been made a Which? Recommended Provider. It's one ...