At first glance, it looks as though an octopus has chosen an unusual form of transportation. In photographs taken off Berry ...

Photographer Bill Coulson captured the bizarre encounter off England — and scientists say the image is valuable evidence.

They change shape and color, and squirt ink. But they also will return your gaze, "as if they're scrutinizing you." ...

Octopuses are fascinating animals—and serve as important model organisms in neuroscience, cognition research and developmental biology. To gain a deeper understanding of their biology and evolutionary ...

Some 150,000 baby common octopuses (Octopus vulgaris) have just been released into the waters off Italy’s Adriatic coast in one of Europe’s first pilot experiments to test whether the species can help ...

Cold spray whipped off the ropes as a diesel engine throbbed in the background. One by one, empty shellfish pots came over the side of the fishing boat, occasionally containing the remnants of crab ...

Perhaps it’s time we stopped feeling quite so bad about eating octopus. Octopuses dine on other octopuses, too. And for the first time, that behavior has been caught on video in the common octopus in ...