The dumbo octopus gets its name from its adorable, ear-like fins that resemble floppy ears. Their beady eyes make them even ...

The blanket octopus uses venomous man o’ war tentacles as weapons, doubling its reach and surviving in the open ocean.

Traditionally, when taxonomists examine a potentially new species of octopus, they dissect them, an approach that is highly invasive and nearly destroys the specimen. Alexander Ziegler Hidden in the ...

It’s not every day that scientists discover a new species of octopus, but that is exactly what has happened off the coast of western Australia. During a CSIRO research expedition to the Carnarvon ...

Hey, sailors! Welcome back to Animals Are Good: Cephalopod Week edition. Cephalopods, in case you’re wondering, are a class of mollusks to which octopus, squid, and cuttlefish belong. As the week ...

Possibly the world's cutest octopus went on public display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Friday.Crowds surrounded the deep-sea cephalopod's tank this morning as people tried to get a first look.The ...

Dumbo octopuses (genus Grimpoteuthis) are deep-sea denizens that lay their eggs in large capsules on the ocean floor, where their offspring develop without parental care. Researchers reported in ...

In October, explorers made a surprise discovery in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary – an octopus community near an undersea mountain. Readers of this column know that Davidson Seamount, which ...