A team of scientists has discovered four new species of octopus in the waters off Costa Rica, the Schmidt Ocean Institute said Tuesday. So far, only one of the new species of deep-sea octopus has ...

Octopus filmed firing stones from her siphon from inside a clam shell like a sniper in never-before-seen behavior captured ...

“Due to the involvement of the nervous and muscular systems, it is likely that cephalopod color change is one of the most ...

These are flanked by hair-like projections called cirri. This places them in the deep-sea cirrate octopus group, which is one of the two main divisions of octopuses. The other division is the ...

Octopus fragments and eggs have been found ... Dr Jamieson is currently the CEO of Armatus Oceanic, a deep-sea consultancy. He's also affiliated to Newcastle University.

a co-author of the new study says levels of nitrogen and fatty acids measured in the tissues confirm the octopus squid feed quite high in their food web, probably eating mostly small deep-sea ...

Deep under the Pacific Ocean, marine scientists recorded a sight rarely seen by humans: an octopus billowy-bouncing across the seafloor at a depth of 4,800 meters (15,750 feet) – smack bang in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Sightings of dumbo octopuses are rare, so researchers were enthralled when one appeared on their submersible's camera on a deep-sea dive near Hawaii. More from News ...

An curved arrow pointing right. While exploring off the coast of Puerto Rico, NOAA's Okeanos Explorer caught footage of this rare dumbo octopus. Produced by Grace Raver. Footage courtesy of NOAA ...

The title of ‘mum of the year’ goes to Graneledone boreopacifica. This deep-sea octopus was observed brooding her clutch of eggs for 53 months – that’s nearly four and a half years. It’s the longest ...

Two miles beneath the ocean surface, at the base of a deep-sea seamount they uncovered the largest known gathering of octopus in the world – 20,000 pearl octopus breeding in warm hydrothermal ...