Help come up with a name for Detroit's new eight-legged creature, as a one-year-old male octopus from the Pacific Northwest has traveled to Belle Isle Aquarium. The aquarium unveiled the octopus tank ...

An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that ...

Scientists have recently documented a behavior that looks almost comedic at first glance: an octopus suddenly reaching out ...

Video from a recent study shows multiple examples of octopuses using their tentacles to punch fish, but it's not part of a sanctioned aquatic boxing match. Instead, researchers said the animals do ...

The Red Sea, sandwiched between northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, is teeming with life, including octopuses and more than a thousand species of fish. Every day, the goal of these creatures ...

Ghost, a giant Pacific octopus at the Aquarium of the Pacific, is in the final phase of her life after laying unfertilized eggs. The octopus, beloved by the public for her active and curious ...

A mother in Texas is raising concerns after a Giant Pacific Octopus at the San Antonio Aquarium latched onto her 6-year-old son’s arm and refused to let go, leaving behind visible bruises. The ...

BOSTON (CBS)- They call him the "octopus whisperer," and for nearly 25 years this 84-year-old has volunteered to work with the eight armed creatures at the New England Aquarium. On Thursday night, he ...

There’s an eight-armed painter in Florida and its name is Farallon. The artistic octopus can be found at The Florida Aquarium in Tampa and it has taken up painting as an "enrichment" activity, ...

MORRO BAY, CA (CBS Local) - A massive 70-pound octopus lives to see another day after a California fish market decided to let the creature return to the ocean. Fred, a mollusk caught in a crab trap, ...