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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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Rearing the babies will provide scientists with a rare opportunity to learn about the typically deeper-water creatures ...

A team of scientists has discovered four new species of octopus in the waters off Costa Rica, the Schmidt Ocean Institute said Tuesday. So far, only one of the new species of deep-sea octopus has been ...

Octopuses are amazing sea creatures. They belong to a group called molluscs, just like snails and clams. But unlike them, octopuses have no shell. They have soft bodies, eight arms, and big brains.

One species was found brooding eggs near low-temperature hydrothermal vents, a rare sight that could unlock new information on deep-sea cephalopods Christian Thorsberg - Correspondent A mother "Dorado ...

Off the coast of the UK, fishermen and marine biologists are witnessing something not seen in generations. Sightings of the ...