Researchers collected detailed observations about the seldom-spotted sea critter during the rare encounter on Nov. 6 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

A wildlife charity has declared 2025 "the Year of the Blooming Octopus" after record numbers were spotted off the south-west coast of England. In its annual marine review the Wildlife Trusts says ...

SAN DIEGO — Researchers at UC San Diego have successfully engineered bacteria to produce octopus pigment, opening the door to revolutionary applications in sunscreen, cosmetics, paint, textiles and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California scientists captured rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a jellyfish. Almost a half-mile below ...

Beach days usually come with seashells and seagulls — not an unexpected eight-armed visitor. But one lucky beachgoer at Padre Island National Seashore (PINS) snapped rare photos of an octopus making a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. From the beginning of life on Earth, microbes, small but influential single-celled organisms, have shaped the environment that animals must adapt ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography has announced a remarkable first: the successful hatching of more than 3,000 Red Octopus hatchlings — a species native to ...

One of Poulsbo's newest inhabitants has quadruple the number of arms and triple the number of hearts than the usual resident. Western Washington University's SEA Discovery Center announced at the end ...

In late September 2025, an image claiming to show an octopus helping a diver with underwater maintenance tasks began circulating on Facebook. One version (archived), included the following caption: ...

"We are thankful for how far reaching this story has become," a rep for the Aquarium of the Pacific tells PEOPLE, while sharing its plans to honor her aquarium of the pacific Ghost, a giant octopus at ...

Ghost always knew when it was showtime. Stretching her eight arms across the tank, the octopus would glide mid-water almost as if she were dancing, leaving admirers on the other side of the glass ...

Kraken, Octopus Energy’s tech arm, has been spun off as a standalone business with $500m annual committed revenue and contracts covering 70m accounts worldwide. The move aims to accelerate global ...