A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods (which can be a timespan of multiple years), she does not eat and dies ...

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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 ...

An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that ...

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 ...

Sandwiched here between the Pacific Ocean and Kona Airport — atop a dusty volcanic desert — dozens of 50-gallon water tanks gurgle and bubble away; each home to a solitary, wild-caught octopus and a ...

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 ...

The octopuses eat the tissues in the jellyfish's body, or bell, and then pull the prey's stinging tentacles along behind them ...

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A wildlife charity has declared 2025 "the Year of the Blooming Octopus" after record numbers were spotted off the south-west ...