Octopus news, features and articles

Check out these amazing underwater photos of a deep-sea octopus squid, flashing spotlights on its arms and showing off its seeming red lips and round eyes.

Forr the first time, scientists have sequenced the genome of the eight-legged rock star, revealing how its complex noggin evolved.

These amazing photos reveal the California two-spotted octopus, which just had its genome sequenced to reveal the underpinnings of the cephalopod's complex brain and wacky behaviors.

A very unusual octopus has scientists wondering just how well they really know the mysterious eight-armed creatures that inhabit the world's oceans.

There are lots of cute (and some not-so-cute) critters out there whose names really reflect their physical characteristics.

Octopus mating involves shifting body colors, detachable "penises," long-distance mating and sexual cannibalism.

Video and images show for the first time a record of octopus cannibalism, revealing the common octopus in three encounters cannibalizing a smaller octopus in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain.

A scuba diver captured a video of a brief tussle between a rare giant octopus and his diving partner.