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A team mapping the seafloor in the northern Red Sea unexpectedly spotted a purpleback flying squid near a previously unknown shipwreck.

A new study reveals that octopuses frequently communicate with each other in challenging displays that include posturing and changing color.

Octopuses are highly intelligent, and thanks to their amazing, neuron-filled tentacles, they can do humanlike tasks such as unscrewing jars and lids.

Scientists are unveiling a rare Pacific octopus with a taste for eating its partners during sex

Octopuses move with a simple elegance, but they have no rhythm, according to new research.

Thanks to their keen night vision, cuttlefish can camouflage themselves against nocturnal predators in the briny deep.

While most female squid and octopuses have just one reproductive cycle before they die, vampire squid go through dozens of egg-making cycles in their lifetimes, a study found.

Antarctic octopuses survive subzero temperatures because of the blue pigments in their blood, a new study finds.