Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images We ...

It’s not every day that scientists discover a new species of octopus, but that is exactly what has happened off the coast of western Australia. During a CSIRO research expedition to the Carnarvon ...

Perhaps it’s time we stopped feeling quite so bad about eating octopus. Octopuses dine on other octopuses, too. And for the first time, that behavior has been caught on video in the common octopus in ...

Beachcombing after a strong winter cold front can be equal parts fascinating and sobering. This week was no exception along the Texas coast. With water temperatures dropping quickly over the last ...

That's how Brent Meister, a marine biologist and aquarist at the Marine Discovery Center in New Smyrna Beach, described a local man's encounter with a fully grown octopus in Mosquito Lagoon last week.