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 ...

Have you ever heard of the Dumbo Octopus? This fascinating creature may not be as well-known as its more famous octopus ...

Octopuses and fish are routinely seen working together on the ocean floor, and now scientists say that the cephalopods are the leaders of the pack.

An octopus patrols a shallow reef, searching for food–and it’s not alone. A flurry of fish move alongside it, in a group ...

Here's some of the most intriguing deep sea footage captured by scientists in 2023. Expeditions to the deeps regularly return ...

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around ... They feed on snails, worms, and other creatures they hoover up from the ocean floor. They are “cirrate” octopuses, a group of deep ...

Beth Orcutt wants to learn more about life at the bottom of the ocean, to inform decision-making on deep sea mining.

The researchers also spotted a Caspar octopus—the first confirmed appearance ... third expedition of the year to that region of the ocean floor. During the previous two, researchers documented ...

These anomalies are usually the result of a hard-to-discern mass — in this case, entire mountains sticking out of the ocean floor ... discovered a deep-sea octopus nursery near a low-temperature ...

All entombed, long ago, in fine, chalky mud on the floor of a long-vanished sea. The nervous system of this common octopus ... few have taken to cruising the ocean currents.

Stars (including Matt Damon and Rainn Wilson), studios and streamers were on the scene for the 15th annual festival, which ...

so is ideal for life in the ocean. If the blood (called haemolymph in invertebrates) becomes deoxygenated - when the animal dies, for example - it loses its blue colour and turns clear instead. An ...