Forget about a hole in the bottom of the sea, this octopus has found a hole in the beach. All octopuses have gills, so they ...

One summer day off the northern coast of New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine noticed something strange on the water’s surface.

An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland.

Somehow, a large orange octopus has been riding a mako shark off the coast of New Zealand. Researchers are mystified.

With all those revelations from just one species, imagine what’s still to be discovered. More than 300 octopus species are believed to inhabit Earth’s oceans, and many have never been studied.

Octopus species do differ somewhat in the organization of their brains, and as only a few have been studied, no one knows whether all of them are equally gifted. Roy Caldwell, an octopus ...

The octopus is one of the ocean’s most fascinating animals. As a species, it possesses almost humanlike intelligence and ...

Octopuses are cephalopods that live in oceans around the world. They are also some of the most intelligent creatures on Earth ...

“We could see these tentacles moving,” she added in a March 20 interview with The New York Times.

This octopus has never been captured, with all existing knowledge based solely ... There's really not much information on what species it really is and what its characteristics are truly because ...

There are 75 cephalopod (octopus and squid) species recorded in Hawaii waters, but most live offshore or at great depths. While intelligent in nature, octopuses like all creatures have weaknesses ...

The animals "impersonate all sorts of animals that are more threatening ... A 2022 study found that the genes of two octopus species shared a genetic quirk present in humans as well.