A female pearl octopus broods her eggs in 2022 at the "octopus garden" near the Davidson Seamount off the California coast. (MBARI) WASHINGTON — Most octopuses lead solitary lives. So scientists ...

Just in time for Halloween, the ocean’s mysterious depths are giving us one heck of a spooky treat. This video was taken in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 15,750 feet, revealing a creature only ...

An encounter with one such creature was documented last year. Deep under the Pacific Ocean, marine scientists recorded a sight rarely seen by humans: an octopus billowy-bouncing across the ...

The Nautilus researchers determined that the animal was floating around 65 feet above the ocean floor and was likely a dumbo octopus. "It looks like a Grimpoteuthis species," one researcher can be ...

Researchers from the University of Aukland got a chance sighting of an octopus hitching a ride on the back of a shark, which they have dubbed "sharktopus." Forget "sharknado" — this footage ...

Footage captured by Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria shows a giant Pacific octopus as it gets knocked around by strong currents on the morning of Nov. 20 as a 'bomb cyclone' hit ...

Viewers can see the octopus tripping up the object of her affection, wrapping herself around his legs as he’s trying to walk out of the ocean in an effort to get him to notice her.

How an Octopus Eats While camouflaged on the ocean floor off the coast of Israel in the Red Sea, octopods use their arms to grab unsuspecting prey 3play_processed In-house Smithsonian.com Science ...

Along the deep ocean floor, Dumbo octopuses are like cute Disney vacuum cleaners, foraging for pelagic invertebrates. They snack on isopods, amphipods, copepods, and bristle worms, all of which ...

That wasn’t the case for this octopus. In 2023, scientists spotted an eight-armed cephalopod riding on a 10-foot mako shark—and their video of the bizarre journey is now available to view. You ...

Naoto Shinkai / Shutterstock. The giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) is the largest species in the world, weighing as much as 150 pounds and measuring up to 15 feet long.It's also known ...