Animal advocates are calling for a halt to future government funding of octopus aquaculture research, saying farming the wild, solitary creatures is an "atrocious idea". In 2022 $1 million in taxpayer ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off ...

The Carnarvon flapjack octopus was collected by scientists on a 2022 CSIRO research voyage, but it wasn't named until last ...

Thousands of feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean, a reddish sea creature with “massive eyes” used its “long” arms to move through the water. Something approached the deep-sea animals, caught it ...

1. David Frederick Attenborough was born on May 8, 1926 in Isleworth, Middlesex, the same year as Queen Elizabeth II. 2. His ...

Tracy Morgan appears as an unlikely champion of the octopus in the two-part documentary Octopus! scheduled for release on May ...

A remotely operated submersible saw the “semi-gelatinous” animal lying on the ocean floor and “flying underwater.” Take a ...

Feitian’s Dumbo octopus is considered “small-sized,” measuring about 16 ... to the fictional character Dumbo from Disney cartoons,” the study said. The Grimpoteuthis feitiana, or Feitian ...

An icon of an mail envelope. A decentered black square over a white square. Octopus chief executive Greg Jackson spoke in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the Innovation Zero congress on ...