An avid beachcomber in Texas had an encounter earlier this week with a common octopus — a sight that she says isn't quite so ...

An avid beachcomber in Padre Island, Texas, came across a common octopus earlier this week - a sight that's not quite so ...

An octopus's mesmerizing skin can flit from orange to red in the blink of an eye, partly thanks to a natural pigment called ...

Padre Island Madre told MySA she saw the octopus along PINS on Monday, December 9. The beachgoer, who frequents the beach ...

Dr. Lauren Smith, a marine biologist at research organization Saltwater Life, called the flotsam “an extraordinary find,” ...

Mattias Krantz is a YouTuber with a penchant for bonkers engineering and musical projects. A few months ago, he went into a ...

When scientists sequenced the genome of this elusive deep-sea creature, they found clues about how squids and octopuses ...

The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

Researchers from Vienna and Japan sequenced the largest cephalopod genome. They analysed the genome of the vampire squid from deep waters. They found evidence linking octopuses to ancient squid-like ...

A multi-armed Whidbey resident who was living in a bottle is now an aquatic celebrity. The juvenile Giant Pacific octopus, who was named Khahanie, is a star attraction at the Western Washington ...