The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

Two miles below the ocean surface off Monterey, California, warm water percolates from the seafloor at the base of an underwater mountain. It’s a magical place, especially if you’re an octopus. We now ...

Off the coast of California is an unusual “octopus garden” — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater ...

In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious creature.” Heavy webbing between the arms of a female blanket octopus ...

Jim Barry receives funding from NOAA. Amanda Kahn does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed ...

More octopuses are hanging out off the coast of Central California than any other place in the world, according to a new study published by Science Advances, which found that tens of thousands of the ...

Off the coast of California is an unusual "octopus garden" — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Haystack Rock Awareness Program in Cannon Beach has received reports of beached octopuses in the past, but they’ve always turned out to be crabs, starfish or other sea ...

While she was walking along Austen Park near Donkey Creek, Gig Harbor resident Ann Webb spotted a rare sea animal Monday, Oct. 3. It was a Giant Pacific octopus. “My husband Jonathan and I were ...