The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze venom effects, first aid, and survival actions after a blue-ringed octopus bite.

All octopuses start out as teeny, tiny plankton, and most grow up to settle down on the seafloor. The blanket octopus, ...

Watching an octopus punch an annoying fish is hugely satisfying to frustrated humans. And other animals do the ...

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 ...

Here, they saw up to 15 gloomy octopuses getting on with their lives. These individuals weren’t just living close to each ...

The Abdopus octopus is found in intertidal zones along the Northern Australian coastline. Rather than being restricted to rockpools at low tide, the Abdopus octopus can pull itself out and crawl ...

This octopus behavior might look funny at first glance, but it reveals how evolution solves complex problems in unexpected ways.

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The giant Pacific octopus is currently the size of an orange. That’s more than seven times the size she was when a resident ...

A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through ...

Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds ...