Every octopus alive today exists because its mother died for it, and the answer is written into her DNA. Here is the genetics and biology behind one of nature's most ruthless and elegant designs.

New species found: Researchers confirmed Grimpoteuthis feitiana as a new dumbo octopus species from a 1,240-meter-deep specimen in the Western Pacific. ROV technology's role: Remotely operated ...

In 2017, a remotely operated vehicle descended the rocky slopes of the Caroline Seamount in the Western Pacific and collected ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.

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

We now know that the warmth of the springs at the Octopus Garden give the embryos a better chance for hatching and early life ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of enormous, intelligent, octopus-like predators that dominated Earth's ancient oceans. These creatures, some up to 19 meters long, possessed bone-crushing beaks and ...

The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep.

Whale-sized, monstrous octopuses prowled the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs, snatching prey with their huge tentacles and crunching them with powerful jaws, fossils from B.C. and Japan suggest.

With 2020’s Oscar-winning My Octopus Teacher, Netflix revealed to the world that octopuses are highly intelligent and ...