The Carnarvon Flapjack Octopus is a small, soft-bodied deep-sea species that reaches about 4 centimeters across. A new ...

Octopuses are fascinating sea creatures. Some species have unique features. The blue-ringed octopus has striking blue rings. The dumbo octopus lives d ...

Indigenous and Western scientists are working together to uncover biodiversity in the icy deep. They're getting some ...

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 ...

Some octopuses adorned their homes in perfect patterns of shells and rocks, while others made random decorations.

As you collect materials, think about whether they’d work underwater, where octopuses live. To create your den, start by ...

UCLA and UC San Diego grad Megan McArthur retires at 54 after two decades with NASA. The space and ocean scientist's work ...

With ear-like fins that flap gracefully through the water, the Dumbo octopus in this YouTube video looks like it waltzed straight out of an animation studio. But don’t let their cute facade fool you; ...

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

A submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a deep-sea creature with “long,” sucker-covered arms and discovered a new species, a study said. Screenshot from video shared via Tang, Zheng and Zhang (2025) ...

In March and April, the waters were nearly barren. By May, they swarmed with octopuses, only to fall quiet again over the past several weeks.It has been a similar story along the UK's Devon ...