The octopus is not the most social species on the planet. Though they are very intelligent, they also tend to be very solitary, and they have a tendency to eat each other given the chance. They’re ...

Octopuses are freaky and mysterious, and they're notoriously difficult to study. But research on one particularly freaky species shows us just how much we have left to learn about cephalopods: The ...

The larger Pacific striped octopus isn’t large, but its mating is spectacular and its hunting is sly — and both are weird enough to earn it a very large place in the records of science. Consider the ...

The larger Pacific striped octopus has a unique hunting style. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions ...

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 ...