A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods (which can be a timespan of multiple years), she does not eat and dies ...

This newly discovered species of octopus is a deep-sea shapeshifter with large eyes and blood-red tentacles. Sounds terrifying? Don’t fret: these strange little guys are smaller than a golf ball.

A seven-arm octopus was spotted in Monterey Bay in Nov. 6, 2025; the 'rarely seen' deep-sea octopus was spotted by ...

An octopus hatchling emerges from a group of eggs at a new octopus nursery, first discovered by the same team in June, at Tengosed Seamount, off Costa Rica. automation Scientists have discovered at ...

One of the world's most elusive sea creatures has washed up on a British beach. The septopus - the seven-legged octopus - is a species with eight arms like other types - but in males, one of them is ...

An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that ...

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 ...

Almost a half-mile below Monterey Bay's surface, California scientists recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a ...

The Wildlife Trust have called 2025 the year of the octopus, as their numbers have shot up by 1500% in Devon and Cornwall ...

Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that some members of the species Octopus cyanea maraud around the seafloor in hunting groups with fish ...

A wildlife charity has declared 2025 "the Year of the Blooming Octopus" after record numbers were spotted off the south-west ...