Photographer Gareth Davies saw the cephalopod as he went for a seaside walk.

All octopuses start out as teeny, tiny plankton, and most grow up to settle down on the seafloor. The blanket octopus, however, never settles down, and spends its life wandering the open ocean. Hosted ...

The octopus is one of the smartest creatures alive on earth today—and they have tons of strange and amazing adaptations that ...

When people think of intelligent animals, they immediately think of dolphins, elephants, and chimpanzees. But one of the most ...

An octopus showing an unusual outburst of liveliness was caught red-tentacled at the Alabama Aquarium, as it apparently ...

Washington has already banned octopus farming. The bill would further crack down on the practice by outlawing the sale, ...

A photographer finds a rare orange octopus on a beach, after a surprising increase in their numbers in the area.