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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.

A dead giant squid has washed up on a beach at a nature reserve in New Zealand. A group of tourists was lucky enough to see the body up close.

A huge giant squid carcass cropped up in Cape Town.

Here's the science behind how oysters make pearls, and how they were valued historically.

Sea slug attack goes sour for hungry predator.