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

Lurking in the ocean's twilight zone - an area between 650 and 3,000 feet below the surface where light rarely reaches - is ...

A stranded octopus gets a helping hand back to the ocean and takes the time to "high five" the rescuer. What really happened?

An octopus sighting along Padre Island was caught on video, showing the animal changing colors and patterns near shore, ...

For deep reef divers, descending into the ocean’s mesophotic layer can feel like exploring the moon. Discovering never-before ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

A North Padre Island beachcomber stumbled across an octopus in the water on Dec. 7.

Almost a half-mile below Monterey Bay's surface, California scientists recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a ...

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 ...

The seven-armed octopus lives hundreds of meters below the surface of the sea and is one of the world's largest octopus ...

The task required hundreds of hours of problem-solving and patience. Musician Mattias Krantz said it was worth it.