Marine scientists from the University of Auckland witnessed an extraordinary event off the coast of New Zealand. They ...

Emma Knight's recent coming-of-age bestseller "The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus" has been set up as a TV series at Amazon ...

Aboard HMS Beagle in 1832, near the Cape Verde island of Santiago (then called St Jago), the young naturalist Charles Darwin met his match in the form of a common octopus. Surrounded by the Tank ...

And when a fish slacks off, the octopus isn’t shy about delivering it a swift slap. Teamwork Beneath the Waves New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution studied how the common octopus ...

This practice is especially common in animals exhibiting female sexual ... And while a female blue-lined octopus is usually about double the size of a male, they are still prone to hunger pangs ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

14. The company has said the project is purely scientific, focusing on optimizing the larval stage of common octopus reproduction, without plans for commercial production. Despite this ...