A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods (which can be a timespan of multiple years), she does not eat and dies ...

A Florida boater caught a red blanket octopus on camera. Blanket octopuses are occasionally spotted deep in the sea. Female blanket octopuses are the only ones to have the blanket features. A Florida ...

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied female octopuses that nest together off Central California at a depth of about 3,200 meters. (MBARI) Off the coast of California is ...

A stunning female blanket octopus has swum into our lives to become a cephalopod-celebrity in just one night. In the ocean, a.k.a. deep space, threats abound, but not to worry. A boundary-setting ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome. That's a big deal given that scientists didn't know until now if these oddball ...

An octopus named Ghost will tend to her eggs that will never hatch, a California aquarium said. Screengrab from @Aquariumpacific on Instagram. A dying octopus will devote the rest of her life to ...

Female octopuses were far more likely than males to 'throw' objects at others. John Turnbull via Flicker under [CC BY-NC-SA 2.0] Scientists have discovered that female octopuses will "throw" objects ...

Researchers in Australia recently discovered that female octopuses throw debris with a strengthened force at targets when they feel harassed. The researchers observed these females throw silt, algae ...

Recently, a deep sea octopus brought back to a laboratory laid fertilized eggs that successfully hatched, providing a unique window into their reproduction and development process. Researchers from UC ...