Can you imagine spending your entire life without ever touching the floor? Well, that’s the reality for this octopus. Pelagic ...

A new MBARI video showcases Japetella diaphana, a rare open-water octopus that switches between transparent and opaque orange ...

When a blanket octopus swims, it creates a kaleidoscope of colors twirling underwater. It’s a rainbow of beauty as it glides through the sea. It’s gorgeous, and it’s almost never seen by humans in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's well known that the octopus is extremely intelligent, and that they often are friendly with people. The Weather Channel ...

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in all of the ocean.

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 new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...

Every octopus alive today exists because its mother died for it, and the answer is written into her DNA. Here is the genetics ...

While climate change has led to an increase in the abundance of octopuses, heat stress from projected ocean warming could impair their vision and impact the survivability of the species. While climate ...

Through sexual selection, the characteristics of a larger female and smaller male have evolved so dramatically that the male blanket octopuses are considered to be dwarf animals.© Sam ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven-armed octopus Haliphron_atlanticus1© A.E Verrill / Public Domain The post The Octopus That Spends Its Entire Life in the ...