An image shared online in December 2025 was an authentic drone picture of a gargantuan octopus spotted in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Giant Eclipse Octopus is going viral on Facebook. The page Science and Space Daily uploaded a picture of a Kraken-like creature and claimed it was supposedly found in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine ...

Legend has it, Ringo Starr wrote Abbey Road’s “Octopus’s Garden” after a sailing trip in Sardinia with the late Pink Panther actor, Peter Sellers. Sellers told Ringo about how octopuses liked ...

Madrona Point in British Columbia, Canada, is a popular spot for diving. These waters are also home to the giant Pacific octopus, the largest octopus species on Earth. In this YouTube video, a diver ...

Most octopuses get around primarily by crawling along the seafloor. And if they need to get somewhere in a hurry, they can employ their funnels to jet away like their pelagic cousins, squid.

UC San Diego researchers have engineered bacteria to produce octopus pigment, potentially revolutionizing cosmetics, textiles ...

A very strange marine life encounter caught on video left scientists baffled when it was first spotted in New Zealand waters in 2023. More than a fanciful shark-octopus hybrid featured in low-budget ...

WASHINGTON – The octopus already is an oddball of the ocean. Now biologists have rediscovered a species of that eight-arm sea creature that’s even stranger and shares some of our social and mating ...

I don't know about you, but when I hear the phrase "robot octopus," all I want to do is curl up in a fetal position and rock back-and-forth. This either sounds like the beginning of one of those ...