Octopuses are up to something. Cephalopods—the class of mollusks to which octopus, squid, and cuttlefish belong—are some of the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and they know it. These ...

Scientists found a deep-sea creature with “massive eyes” in an underwater canyon and discovered a new species near Australia, a study said. Photo from CSIRO Thousands of feet below the surface of the ...

The research vessel E/V Nautilus found a flapjack octopus that uses its tentacles to hide from its bright lights. The research vessel E/V Nautilus found a flapjack octopus that uses its tentacles to ...

About 300 species of octopus are known to inhabit the oceans, and that number keeps growing. As Smithsonian reports, Australian scientists recently identified a new eight-armed cephalopod that ...

MOSS LANDING >> Hideous denizens live in the deep sea. But so does a cute wide-eyed, pink and squishy little octopus. The newly discovered, cartoon-like creature is so cute that “adorable” might ...

A species of octopus discovered living in the Monterey Bay is so cute, MBARI scientists want to give it a special name. MBARI researcher Stephanie Bush pitched the scientific name, Opisthoteuthis ...

Thousands of feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean, a reddish sea creature with “massive eyes” used its “long” arms to move through the water. Something approached the deep-sea animals, caught it ...

MOSS LANDING — Hideous denizens live in the deep sea. But so does a cute wide-eyed, pink and squishy little octopus. The newly discovered, cartoon-like creature is so cute that “adorable” might become ...