The blanket octopus uses venomous man o’ war tentacles as weapons, doubling its reach and surviving in the open ocean.

Researchers with the Ocean Exploration Trust were exploring the ocean floor of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument when they found it A livestream of a deep sea expedition caught a ghostly ...

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied female octopuses that nest together off Central California at a depth of about 3,200 meters. (MBARI) Off the coast of California is ...

Off the coast of California is an unusual "octopus garden" — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth. Most are brooding females, and according to new research, the site ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most octopuses lead solitary lives. So scientists were startled to find thousands of octopus huddled together, protecting their eggs at the bottom of the ocean off the central ...

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 ...

Off the coast of California is an unusual "octopus garden" — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater ...

Researchers with the Ocean Exploration Trust were exploring the ocean floor of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument when they found it Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She ...

Off the coast of California is an unusual “octopus garden” — the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000 octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater ...

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Octopuses tend to live alone. Kind of sad. Who do you hug with all of those arms? But the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses who live together, the largest one ever discovered, is thriving off ...