Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods ...

Scientists just explored the realm of octopi. They returned with discoveries. On a deep sea expedition off of Costa Rica, researchers used a robotic submersible to capture footage of previously ...

Researchers described two extinct finned octopus species from Cretaceous-era fossils, evidence that giant invertebrates ...

The finned octopus lived alongside T. rex and may have been one of the top predators in the ancient ocean food chain.

Deep-sea creatures often look more like science fiction monsters than marine animals. The glass octopus is one such animal. The Schmidt Ocean Institute captured this footage of the incredibly rare ...

Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa Rica, officials from the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Tuesday. An ...

Can you imagine spending your entire life without ever touching the floor? Well, that’s the reality for this octopus. Pelagic ...

A new species of octopus may have just been discovered off the coast of Costa Rica. It was found in a rare brooding site that marks only the third octopus nursery known to exist in the world. The ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...