Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods ...

The palm-size creature was spotted and collected during a research expedition more than a decade ago, but scientists have ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...

Scientists have officially named a brand new octopus species, Microeledone galapagensis, discovered nearly 6,000 feet below the Galápagos The post Scientists discover brand new species of octopus and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Go diving into the intertidal waters of the Great Barrier ...

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 ...

A small octopus living deep beneath the eastern Pacific has gone unnoticed for years in underwater footage and specimen collections. It carried the same bright blue colouring seen in other deep-sea ...

Scientists just explored the realm of octopi. They returned with discoveries. On a deep sea expedition off of Costa Rica, researchers used a robotic submersible to capture footage of previously ...

It could be easy to miss a blob the size of a golf ball. But its blue hue—the rarest color in nature—stood out against the sand, grabbing researchers’ attention. It wasn’t a blob but an adorable blue ...