This group of friends wasn't expecting an encounter with one of the world's largest octopus species while enjoying a short ...

The giant Pacific octopus grows bigger and lives longer than any other octopus species. The size record is held by a specimen that was 30 feet across and weighed more than 600 pounds. Averages are ...

Usually when we write about wildlife encounters on the trail, we're covering stories of bear attacks or defensive moose, but ...

These are the weird reasons octopuses change shape and color These are the weird reasons octopuses change shape and color An octopus invited this writer into her tank—and her secret world An ...

North Pacific giant octopus hug massive crab, such as snow crabs, to paralyze them instantly. Then they use their suckers to crush their prey to pieces before enjoying the feast.

A giant Pacific octopus made a group of friends’ day when they spotted the creature in a tide pool on the coast of northern Washington recently.This video filmed by Micah Moeller shows the eight-armed ...

Two miles beneath the ocean surface, at the base of a deep-sea seamount they uncovered the largest known gathering of octopus in the world – 20,000 pearl octopus breeding in warm hydrothermal ...