Here, they saw up to 15 gloomy octopuses getting on with their lives. These individuals weren’t just living close to each ...

The other known octopus nursery is about 3,200 meters (2 miles) below the ocean surface on the Davidson Seamount off the coast of Monterey, California, where thousands of octopuses cluster around a ...

Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa Rica, officials from the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Tuesday. An ...

Scientists say they have discovered what might be a new species of octopus while searching the Pacific Ocean floor near the Hawaiian Islands. On Feb. 27, a team found a small light-colored octopus at ...

Coverage of a newly identified octopus species, detailing its unique traits and what the discovery reveals about ocean biodiversity.

The Abdopus octopus is found in intertidal zones along the Northern Australian coastline. Rather than being restricted to rockpools at low tide, the Abdopus octopus can pull itself out and crawl ...

The discovery of Taningia silasii, known as the Indian octopus squid, marks a major milestone in deep-sea biodiversity research in the Indian Ocean. Scientists from the Central Marine Fisheries ...

What Glenn Johnson initially mistook for rubbish floating in knee-deep water at Lorne Beach on Tuesday turned out to be an extraordinary find — a living Southern Argonaut octopus that squirted him ...

A researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium is deciding what to name a tiny octopus she has found and been unable to identify. "I thought that since this animal is so adorable, I should name it ...

Enigmatic octopuses that have been newly discovered in the waters off Costa Rica add to a growing registry of deep-sea dwellers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...