Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa Rica, officials from the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Tuesday. An ...

Deep-sea octopuses are typically solitary creatures that inhabit frigid waters in one of Earth’s most challenging environments. The 2018 discovery of thousands of the eight-legged cephalopods about 2 ...

Among the many interesting deep-sea creature discoveries, the female deep-sea octopus, Graneldone boreopacifica, is in a league of its own. Approximately 1,400 meters below the surface of an ...

Two miles under the ocean’s surface, in one final act, a lavendar-colored pearl octopus about the size of a grapefruit selects a nesting site. After gluing about 60 sausage-shaped eggs to that perfect ...

Octopuses have a few characteristics that make them stand out as one of the most intelligent mollusks in the ocean. These slippery, strange ocean creatures, characterized by their large craniums and ...

The deep-sea octopus is "rarely seen," per the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, which has only seen it four times in four decades Researchers collected detailed observations about the octopus ...

MONTEREY – The world's largest octopus garden, in the shade of an extinct underwater volcano off the Monterey Coast, is where thousands of cephalopods gather to mate, nest and die. The big mystery, ...

POULSBO, Wash. — The free aquarium in Poulsbo has eels and anemones. But they want an octopus. "One of the first questions we get asked when people come to Sea Discovery Center is, 'Where's the ...

Researchers used advanced technology to study a massive aggregation of deep-sea octopus gathered at thermal springs near an extinct underwater volcano off the coast of Central California. Warm water ...

A submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a deep-sea creature with “long,” sucker-covered arms and discovered a new species, a study said. Screenshot from video shared via Tang, Zheng and Zhang (2025) ...

The cephalopods were found near a small outcrop of rock called El Dorado Hill. Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa ...