Growing interest in commercial octopus farming threatens to subject these cognitively complex, sentient animals to inhumane ...

On a mild February morning, Isaac Blanco quickly places half a sardine into each cage as his brother, Julio, steers their ...

The photo of a courageous mother lemur with a baby on her back, taking a harrowing jump in a ravine, won the California ...

The octopus is one of the world’s most amazing creatures, and nothing puts that into perspective more than the physiological ...

Octopuses don’t think like we do. In fact, most of their neurons aren’t in their brains at all. Instead, they’re spread ...

With ear-like fins that flap gracefully through the water, this Dumbo octopus looks like it waltzed straight out of an ...

Genetic analysis reveals bluebottles are actually four distinct species, overturning two centuries of scientific belief.

Legislation sponsored by Sens. Nilsa I. Cruz-Perez (D-5) and Douglas J. Steinhardt (R-23) to ban octopus farming in New ...

Octopus boom along England's southwest coast down to 'perfect storm' A large - and normally rare - type of octopus is being caught by fishermen in Devon and Cornwall in enormous numbers.

This species is similar in size to the Pacific giant octopus, but what sets it apart is its elusiveness. The deep-sea dweller has been spotted only a few times by researchers using submersibles.

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia.

The Carnarvon flapjack octopus was collected by scientists on a 2022 CSIRO research voyage, but it wasn't named until last week. The species is one of a number of newly-described species collected ...