Can you imagine spending your entire life without ever touching the floor? Well, that’s the reality for this octopus. Pelagic ...

Today's octopuses are intelligent, remarkably flexible animals that lurk in reefs, hide in crevices, or drift through the deep sea. But new research suggests that their earliest relatives may have ...

A widely shared video shows divers off Lembeh, Indonesia, persuading a coconut octopus to abandon a dangerous plastic cup for a protective shell. The rescue, filmed in 2018 and viewed over 20 million ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

A prehistoric fossil previously thought to belong to the world's oldest octopus has been reclassified as something else, after scientists discovered the remains actually belonged to a different type ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world's oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn't one at all. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

Fossil evidence suggests that some of the earliest octopuses were enormous, powerful predators in the Cretaceous oceans A sketch of the giant octopus ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center has a hate inflation strategy in order to stay relevant. Now, the DOJ has caught on to the ...

The Justice Department responds after the SPLC claimed that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche lied about its informant ...

Meet Agnetha, the real octopus who inspired Marcellus's design.