A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise 3,000 tonnes of octopus a year, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually. My research ...

Remember when the internet cried actual tears for an anglerfish earlier this year? Now, TikTok has a new deep-sea obsession. Brought to light by creator and wildlife biologist Josh Allyn, TikTok has ...

Octopuses—typically a solitary animal—built a small city using scavenged junk and discarded prey shells. Octopuses are typically solitary animals—they goes about their days hiding in a den and ...

At Octlantis, proximity made recognition easier and behavior patterns clearer. The site also confirmed that Octlantis was not a fluke. A nearby settlement called Octopolis showed similar traits years ...

A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise 3,000 tonnes of an octopus a year, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually. My research ...

(via SciShow) In Jervis Bay, off the coast of southwest Australia, octopuses have built two separate cities, which scientists nicknamed Octopolis and Octlantis...Or at least that's what a variety of ...

Octopuses, once shrouded in mystery and viewed as alien undersea creatures, are getting a new reputation as research illuminates that they’re far more social than previously believed. A new book ...

For decades, scientists have assumed so-called gloomy octopuses (or octopus tetricus) were just a bunch of loners. But now there's evidence these marine creatures hang out in small octo-cities, ...

An international team of marine biologists found a site of 15 of the common Sydney, Australia, cephalopods in Jervis Bay, off of Australia’s eastern coast in December 2016, and appropriately named the ...

A solitary octopus in an aquarium. Researchers have identified a colony of gloomy octopuses off the coast of Australia in a surprising scientific discovery. An international team of marine biologists ...