The creature, also known as septopus, was found in fragments along the Ythan estuary near Forvie National Nature Reserve, ...

"These were something we clearly hadn't seen before, with a large diameter and big suckers - far too big for the common ...

What appeared to be tentacles washed up on an Aberdeenshire beach are the remains of a deep-sea creature called a seven-arm ...

A large tentacle washed up on a beach in the UK, and it likely belongs to a rare septopus, also known as a giant gelatinous ...

Great Yarmouth's Port of East Anglia has revealed plans to expand into council-owned land in the South Denes area of the port ...

A seven-legged octopus was found on a Scottish beach in late November, with all its body parts scattered in different places. Researchers are puzzled as to how it reached the shore since it typically ...

The mystery was eventually solved by specialists at the University of Aberdeen and New Zealand-based marine biologist Dr ...

Size shapes the way animals move, hunt, and survive. For example, in the ocean, ginormous creatures rely on their massive ...

Dr. Lauren Smith, a marine biologist at research organization Saltwater Life, called the flotsam “an extraordinary find,” ...

The remains of a rare deep-sea octopus has washed up on a beach in Aberdeenshire. The Forvie National Nature Reserve were alerted to the discovery of a “thick tentacle” located at the beach near ...

National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest cephalopod genome sequenced to date. Their analyses, published in iScience, show ...