When people imagine life on other planets, they often picture creatures unlike anything found on Earth. Perhaps they have ...

This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it ...

The palm-size creature was spotted and collected during a research expedition more than a decade ago, but scientists have just identified it as a previously undescribed species ...

The team at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, has devised a great approach for their Giant pacific ...

Now, scientists have discovered that the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) can also learn to use mirrors, researchers report June 3 in Current Biology. When brainstorming octopus ...

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in all of the ocean. The blue-ringed octopus (genus Hapalochlaena) is small ...

The toy explains the whole mystery.