Yes, female octopuses throw things at pushy males-but it's not just them.

A fossil once believed to show the world’s oldest imprint of an octopus – some 300 million years old – is actually another ...

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of the most mysterious animals living in the sea. In research out today, however ...

In a recent news report from ABC, it was revealed that scientists from the Ocean Exploration Trust captured on film one of ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

Scientists uncover the truth behind a well-known fossil, Pohlsepia mazonensis, showing the "world's oldest octopus" was not ...

A famous “oldest octopus” fossil has been exposed as a case of mistaken identity. Advanced imaging revealed hidden teeth ...

In 2016, an octopus named Inky pulled off one of the cleanest escapes ever recorded at the National Aquarium of New Zealand ...

“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...

How do octopuses mate in the dark? A new study shows how the hectocotylus arm uses progesterone receptors to "taste" for a mate.