Back in 2008, a miniature mystery unfolded at Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany. Staff turned up for work in the morning ...

Blanket octopuses are extremely rare, having been seen only a handful of times in the past decade. It is not a single species ...

Collected by the iconic American writer John Steinbeck, the octopus has received a number of scientific monikers ...

“The octopus basically works as the decider of the group,” says co-author Eduardo Sampaio, an animal-behaviour researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany.

For the octopus, this frees up more time for other activities, such as reproduction, social interaction, playing, and building or maintaining a den. Other examples exist of animals enforcing ...

New adhesive system could be powerful tool for underwater salvage, rescue operations.

Examining the cephalopod’s sucker structure was key to its creation.

The octopus-fish dynamic takes things up a notch, with aspects of collaboration, exploitation, and shared leadership all adding up to animal intrigue. Over the course of 120 hours spent diving ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel announced the arrival of its newest resident, a playful and ...

Virginia Tech researchers have developed technology inspired by octopus suckers that enables precise underwater gripping and ...

Clever and agile enough to navigate mazes, change colour, use tools, open jars and seemingly recognise different people, the ...