A photographer finds a rare orange octopus on a beach, after a surprising increase in their numbers in the area.

Photographer Gareth Davies saw the cephalopod as he went for a seaside walk.

For decades, breeding octopuses in captivity has proven a fish farming challenge too far, with numerous failed attempts to reproduce cephalopods outside their natural habitat. When Spanish company ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through ...

Morphing and malleable, the octopus has always been a cosmic creature. With the ability to press its gelatinous girth through the tiniest rocky crevice, this cephalopod has inspired terrifying legends ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the "vampire squid from hell," revealing it bridges the evolutionary gap between octopuses and squids. This deep-sea marvel's massive genome offers ...

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

Coleoid cephalopods (octopus, squid and cuttlefish) are unable to thermoregulate and rely on their environment to maintain internal temperatures. A new study, led by researchers at the University of ...