By Pepper St. Clair From the beginning of life on Earth, microbes, small but influential single-celled organisms, have shaped ...

The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

Octopuses can taste with their arms, and a new study reveals that specifically, they're tasting chemical cues from microbes that grow on the surface of objects like dead crabs and living octopus eggs.

Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have surprisingly rich social lives. A new study found that some members of an octopus ...

Octopuses have alternating periods of "quiet" and "active" sleep that make their rest similar to that of mammals, despite being separated by more than 500 million years of evolution. During their ...

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...

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Jenny Evans / Getty Images Octopuses are capable of sophisticated tasks, from solving puzzles to decorating their dens to remembering people's faces. So when a company in Spain announced that it ...

A female octopus throws debris that hits a male attempting to mate with her. The material thrown is silt, vigor is high, and thrower’s coloration pattern is dark uniform. Credit: Godfrey-Smith et al., ...

A new study found that some members of an octopus species hunt cooperatively in groups with fish. Video shows octopuses punching their companion fish to keep them on task and contributing to the hunt.