Remarkable footage captures an octopus demonstrating its extraordinary flexibility after squeezing itself inside a glass jar. The bizarre sight shows the octopus crammed almost entirely inside the ...

The coconut octopus has solved a problem that stumps most soft-bodied ocean creatures: how to survive on a wide-open, ...

It's a sight you don't see often, or ever: a common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) apparently hitching a ride on the back of a Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) by clinging onto its fin. The photo was ...

An octopus 🐙is a quite mysterious creature with unique movements of its eight arms.When you look into it, what's inside is ...

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in all of the ocean. The blue-ringed octopus (genus Hapalochlaena) is small ...

Credit: Bill Coulson, Risso’s Dolphin Project South West volunteer, courtesy of the Marine Biological Association. At first ...

The veined octopus carries clam and coconut shells, then walks on two arms across the seafloor. Discover its bizarre survival strategy.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This octopus survives in plain sight. Here’s how it adapts ...

A new NOAA Fisheries study suggests that the vast majority of octopus bycatch in commercial pot fisheries survives after being returned to sea. A 2017 NOAA Fisheries study suggests that the vast ...