Giant octopuses measuring up to 62 feet (19 meters) in length were among the top ocean predators around 100 million years ago, according to new research that uncovered rare fossils hidden within solid ...

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once ...

Finned octopus species alive today are all small, deep-sea animals that mostly live in pitch-black darkness thousands of meters beneath the surface of the sea. But a new discovery by a team of ...

The coconut octopus has solved a problem that stumps most soft-bodied ocean creatures: how to survive on a wide-open, ...

At the time of the dinosaurs, the oceans were teeming with life. Below the waves, giant marine reptiles, such as the fearsome 4m (13ft) long mosasaurs, were the undisputed apex predators. In artistic ...

On the seafloor, the veined octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) turns discarded coconut shells into something far more useful ...

Most octopuses are homebodies of the ocean floor. If you’ve ever seen one on a nature show, it was probably tucked neatly into a rocky crevice, draped over a coral reef, or buried up to its eyes in ...

Around 130,000 common octopus paralarvae, or newly hatched octopuses, have been released into waters off Italy as part of a project aimed at controlling the growing population of invasive blue crabs.