Telescope octopus mantle illustration from 1886; courtesy of William Evans Hoyle/Wikimedia Commons Big eyes can be a big benefit--allowing an animal to see potential prey and predators coming from a ...

While on Muizenberg Beach, Dr Tess Gridley, the principal scientist and co-founder of the environmental conservation organisation Sea Search, encountered a paper nautilus octopus. Also known as ...

KANEOHE (HawaiiNewsNow) – Ten year old Rocky Hawn was fishing in Kaneohe Bay off Heeia Kea Pier Wednesday when he made an unusual catch. "I saw taco octopus in the regular holes inside the shallow, ...

Sunlight glistens through a jar of copepods, a pelagic octopus, arrow worms, amphipods, a red Penaeid shrimp, and other organisms collected about 300 kilometers (186 miles) off San Diego during a ...

Shallow-water octopuses can be difficult enough to find. They camouflage against corals, hide in holes and generally make themselves scarce. But researchers can at least attempt to observe and collect ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the elusive “vampire squid from hell” for the first time, providing insights into the origin of cephalopods like octopuses. It’s the largest cephalopod genome ...

Tremoctopus or blanket octopus is a pelagic octopus that inhabits open water, often at great depths. The fluttery pennants of tissue that trail behind them are a defence mechanism. When attacked, they ...

A paper nautilus, a pelagic octopus that builds its own shell, is seen at Joetsu Aquarium in the city of Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture. It's difficult to keep paper nautilus confined for a long period as ...