A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods (which can be a timespan of multiple years), she does not eat and dies ...

Folks aboard a Florida fishing charter on Friday enjoyed a rare encounter with a blanket octopus that swam alongside their boat for several minutes. “[She] was very curious of the boat and the squid ...

A Florida boater caught a red blanket octopus on camera. Blanket octopuses are occasionally spotted deep in the sea. Female blanket octopuses are the only ones to have the blanket features. A Florida ...

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied female octopuses that nest together off Central California at a depth of about 3,200 meters. (MBARI) Off the coast of California is ...

Researchers in Australia recently discovered that female octopuses throw debris with a strengthened force at targets when they feel harassed. The researchers observed these females throw silt, algae ...

Female octopuses were far more likely than males to 'throw' objects at others. John Turnbull via Flicker under [CC BY-NC-SA 2.0] Scientists have discovered that female octopuses will "throw" objects ...

An octopus named Ghost will tend to her eggs that will never hatch, a California aquarium said. Screengrab from @Aquariumpacific on Instagram. A dying octopus will devote the rest of her life to ...

A female octopus throws debris that hits a male attempting to mate with her. The material thrown is silt, vigor is high, and thrower’s coloration pattern is dark uniform. Credit: Godfrey-Smith et al., ...

Tacoma — The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma has a new resident: a 32-pound female giant Pacific octopus. For the next few days, the Pacific Seas Aquarium is holding a poll asking people to ...

The sprawling documentary series, The Americas takes viewers to the southern tip of Chile, the frozen north of Alaska and Canada, and all points between to explore our planet’s largest supercontinent.

Off the coast of California is an unusual “octopus garden” — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater ...