EXPECTING his normal catch of plaice, turbot and Dover sole, Arthur Dewhirst was surprised when his nets spilled their contents onto his ship's deck earlier this year. Instead of shiny, flapping fish, ...

"Octopus!" The crew of Sea Eagle shouted "Octopus!" as a cephalopod crawled out of a pot of plastic they had dug up from the seabed near northern Greece. The octopus was caught in a trap that was ...