A new blue octopus species, Microeledone galapagensis, was recently discovered near Darwin Island in northern Galápagos.

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

Scientists have officially named a brand new octopus species, Microeledone galapagensis, discovered nearly 6,000 feet below ...

On the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands, a submersible controlled by scientists came across a mysterious octopus as blue as the ocean and no bigger than a golf ball.

The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth—things like marine iguanas and giant tortoises. In a new paper in ...

The California two-spot octopus can edit the RNA in its brain to produce different proteins as ocean temperatures fluctuate, a new study finds. Octopuses are curious and clever. They can solve mazes ...