The once-abundant pale octopus has not been caught in lower Spencer Gulf for more than a year, and what happened to the ...

A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

While the book has some elements of a standard detective potboiler, it takes readers in unexpected directions with lovable ...

A viral Instagram video posted in April 2026 showed an octopus throwing rocks at another octopus, along with a claim that females fling objects at persistent males. The video turned out to be ...

You’ve probably seen it by now — that Instagram video posted in April 2026 of an octopus hurling rocks at another octopus, ...

Octopuses have been caught on camera throwing objects underwater, sometimes hitting rivals. Research explains what's really ...

A 2022 research study conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney, led by Prof Peter Godfrey-Smith, documented this remarkable behavior in the wild. The findings, published in PLOS One, ...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

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

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

Scientific knowledge is constantly updated, revised, or reshuffled as new insights emerge. One particular fossil was thought ...