Caption: An octopus cyanea hunting with a blacktip grouper on one side and a gold-saddle goatfish (‘blue goatfish’) on the other. An octopus patrols a shallow reef, searching for food–and it’s not ...

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 ...

The Red Sea, sandwiched between northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, is teeming with life, including octopuses and more than a thousand species of fish. Every day, the goal of these creatures ...

Rearing the babies will provide scientists with a rare opportunity to learn about the typically deeper-water creatures ...

A giant Pacific octopus — named Grindylow, after the underwater cryptid from English folklore — recently died at the Aquarium of the Pacific, officials announced this week. The female octopus was ...

Octopuses are some of the smartest invertebrates in the animal kingdom, with an exceptional ability to solve problems, use tools, and recognize their surroundings and individual people. Over the years ...

The San Antonio Aquarium has responded after a 6-year-old boy was left covered in bruises from an encounter with a giant Pacific octopus The San Antonio Aquarium said "The octopus displayed typical, ...

A captive octopus went all "Finding Nemo" with a clever escape plan that took him from an aquarium tank back into the wilds of the ocean. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...

The solitary cephalopods occasionally join a hunting party with fish, then lash out for reasons that scientists are studying. By Elizabeth Preston The first time Eduardo Sampaio saw an octopus wind up ...

MORRO BAY, CA (CBS Local) - A massive 70-pound octopus lives to see another day after a California fish market decided to let the creature return to the ocean. Fred, a mollusk caught in a crab trap, ...