A fishing trip of the California coast last week produced an extraordinary catch: a type of octopus that constructs its own shell to ride ocean currents.

The recent sighting of the violet blanket octopus at Jabal Sifah Marina has gone viral across social media, drawing widespread fascination. But ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

An octopus doesn't need sharp teeth or a giant body to stand out. It has something even more fascinating - an endless list of ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruits. Two years ago, I planted Anna and an Ein Shemer apple trees in the same hole since they do an excellent job of pollinating each other. Today, I have ...

Nearly 1,800 meters beneath the surface of the Pacific, a remotely operated submersible was creeping along the slope of a Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in ...

While on a deep-sea expedition in the Galapagos in 2015, scientists found a golf-ball sized, short-armed blue octopus. In a recent study, they confirmed that it’s new to science. The newly described ...

An octopus about the size of a golf ball was first spotted in 2015 near Darwin Island. A new study gives it both a formal description and a name. The octopus was first spotted in 2015 during a ...

It could be easy to miss a blob the size of a golf ball. But its blue hue—the rarest color in nature—stood out against the sand, grabbing researchers’ attention. It wasn’t a blob but an adorable blue ...

The discovery of a blue octopus about the size of a golf ball has delighted marine biologists and the public with its rarity – and its big-eyed cute factor. The octopus was found 5,800 feet deep in ...