Well, scientists off the coast of California witnessed this in a deep-sea octopus, Graneledone boreopacifica. For 53 straight months, this octopus mom clung to a ledge guarding her eggs from ...

The deep ocean remains one of Earth’s last great frontiers — a pitch-black, high-pressure world where sunlight never reaches ...

A Spanish company plans to open an octopus farm. This has caused global concern. Scientists and activists are worried about ...

A new type of ultra has entered the arena of sport. Could a 33.3km swim around Croatia be the thing to inspire triathletes to ...

Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can ...

Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though ...

Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...

With eyes the size of dinner plates and arms that stretch over 13 metres, it lives far below the sunlight zone. Sightings are rare, but deep-sea cameras have occasionally caught glimpses of this ...

The world’s largest zinc smelter is taking a stake in a deep-sea mining company as it seeks to diversify its sources of metals away from China.

Even if local fishers receive deep-sea boats, the huge industrial ships coming into the new port loaded with fish will disrupt the local market and deny them a livelihood, he said.

Researchers reported Tuesday in the journal Cell that octopus arms are fine-tuned to “eavesdrop into the microbial world,” detecting microbiomes on the surfaces around them and deriving ...