The new species, named Microeledone galapagensis, has a blue hue, which is believed to be the rarest color in nature.

Researchers discovered the octopus 1.8km below the shores of the Galápagos Islands in 2015, but are still figuring out ...

This alien and extraordinarily intimate image provides a rare glimpse of a Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus briareus) mother and her potential offspring at the Blue Heron Bridge dive area, off ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The image in question showed five visible tentacles and the body of the octopus, with local beachgoers standing around it and more ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world's oldest octopus, has now been reclassified after new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Liittschwager's response: "I want to see." "That license to stare that photographers have? I've always liked that," David Liittschwager tells NPR. "You're rarely given the permission to really, really ...

Octopuses are remarkably intelligent creatures, as was demonstrated by Inky the Octopus's famous escape from the National ...