The Giant Eclipse Octopus is going viral on Facebook. The page Science and Space Daily uploaded a picture of a Kraken-like creature and claimed it was supposedly found in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine ...

Mattias Krantz is a YouTuber with a penchant for bonkers engineering and musical projects. A few months ago, he went into a wet market looking not for lunch, but for a potential prodigy. Krantz wanted ...

Sometimes, a brilliant idea can begin in an unlikely place. For Shelby Van Pelt, her brilliant idea began by going down "a YouTube rabbit hole," she said. "Like, a naughty octopus rabbit hole," Van ...

Deep below the waters of the mighty Pacific Ocean, a mother is making the ultimate sacrifice for her babies. In this touching YouTube clip, you see a female giant Pacific octopus lay down her life to ...

The eldritch, alien movements of octopus arms have captivated people for generations. These underwater cephalopods don't have just one brain but nine, with each of their arms able to act ...

In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious creature.” Heavy webbing between the arms of a female blanket octopus ...

Jonathan Taylor says he just found out that if a player gets a touchdown and a 2-point conversion in the same game, it’s called an octopus. I’ve never heard that before. But I don’t care. JT’s right.

An octopus has no shell, just a soft body and a sharp mind. It's a master of shape-shifting, adapting to its ever-changing environment with grace and resilience. It faces daily challenges with ...

A major seafood company wants to farm octopuses for their meat. Activists and academics say it’s impractical and cruel.

In football terms, an Octopus refers to when a player scores a touchdown, then follows it up by scoring a two-point ...

This is the den of the common octopus. Can you see it hiding? Credit: Shutterstock Look at the picture above. What do you see? If you look closely, you may notice the red eyes of the common octopus ...