The five-week voting bracket culminated in two names: one that reflects the giant pacific octopus' adorable appearance, the ...

On May 8, 2025, the nature documentary Octopus! was released on Prime. The underwater documentary, produced and narrated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, tells the fascinating story of an octopus’s incredible ...

The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

Octopuses are perhaps the most unusual creatures to have ever inhabited the ocean. Their soft body, eight arms, and high ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

Octopuses and their arms are still a bit of a mystery. Not because scientists don't know how they work; their arms are boneless hydrostats, made up of groups of muscles working together, and capable ...

Scientists set out to understand all the ways the animals use their eight appendages. It wasn’t easy. By Kate Golembiewski The eight arms of an octopus are right there in its name. But these ...