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 ...

A rare Dumbo octopus was captured on the camera of a deep sea submersible by the Ocean Exploration Trust as it was exploring the ocean floor ...

The deepest ever sighting of an octopus has been made by cameras on the Indian Ocean floor. The animal was spotted 7,000m down in the Java Trench - almost 2km deeper than the previous reliable ...

Octopus slips out of aquarium tank, crawls across floor, escapes down pipe to ocean. April 13, 2016 More than ... The octopus got a hold of it and took it apart piece by piece.

But the octopus walking on the ocean floor — that’s me. The team drew on my ability to make the feeling they were hearing, and we used everything, however unlikely the instrument. ...

The octopus's behavior in the video resembles another octopus we wrote about in 2015, which carried two halves of a coconut shell across the sea floor. Since an octopus is unprotected when it ...

The octopus was seen on an unnamed seamount in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument just northwest of Hawaii. Video was captured by the Ocean Exploration Trust and NOAA.

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 ...