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

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 ...

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 ...

A tentacle from a rare seven-arm octopus has washed up on a beach – and it might just be its reproductive appendage. The hefty tentacle was discovered by a passerby at Forvie National Nature Reserve ...

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Last year, they were hit with a deadly virus. The year before that, starvation. What will this breeding season bring for the ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone.

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...