National Trust staff have unearthed remarkable fossils dating back 340 million years within a dry stonewall in ...

South Korean heritage brand Samil introduces Nakji-Long Chips, a trendy octopus snack featuring proprietary Roasting & ...

British journalist Andy McConnell had a "brush with death" when he handled one of the world’s deadliest octopuses during a trip to the Philippines. The writer and author, who regularly appears on BBC ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest cephalopod genome sequenced to ...

A hospital hand-crochet octopuses with tentacles to resemble umbilical cords - to help babies in NICU feel safe. The premature babies at the Cleveland Clinic are being given a crocheted octopus to ...

A new dumbo octopus species, Grimpoteuthis feitiana, was accidentally discovered in a scientific blind spot of the deep Pacific Ocean. It carries a name that nods to the flying figures in China’s ...

Proponents of octopus farming claim it can reduce fishing pressure on wild octopus populations by supplying the seafood industry, and even suggest that these efforts could contribute to restocking ...

In late September 2025, an image claiming to show an octopus helping a diver with underwater maintenance tasks began circulating on Facebook. One version (archived), included the following caption: ...

British renewable energy provider Octopus Energy said this week that it’s spinning off Kraken, its tech platform for utilities, spurred in part by $500 million in committed annual revenue from other ...