Octopus bimaculoides, or “bimac” for short, has a natural lifespan of 12 to 18 months. After a female lays her eggs, she stops eating as she watches over her offspring.

The Clifford family was as prepared as possible to welcome Terrance the octopus. But there was one thing they missed: she was pregnant. And then she laid a whole lot of eggs.

Some of the clearest evidence for octopus-on-octopus attacks came from two observations of repeat offending by a single individual. In these two cases, one octopus landed “hit after hit after ...

It all started because his 9-year-old son wanted a pet. Not just any pet. An octopus. Specifically, a California two-spot octopus, also known as a bimac. So, Cameron Clifford, a 36-year-old ...

On the present path AI has taken, a robotic octopus will remain a dream. And, even if researchers created a true robotic octopus, the octopus, while a miracle of nature, is not Bart or Harmony ...

At this year's Oscars, a film called "My Octopus Teacher" took home the award for Best Documentary Feature.. The movie tells the powerful story of how a filmmaker, Craig Foster, forges an unlikely ...

How many hearts does an octopus have? Octopuses have three hearts. One heart pumps blood throughout the body and the other two move blood to the gills, according to the nonprofit National Wildlife ...

It’s not uncommon, for example, to see an octopus using several arms to move itself across the ocean floor while cracking open a shell with two others. Each arm can also react independently to ...

An octopus invited this writer into her tank—and her secret world. In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious ...

Octopuses are seen as smart and solitary. A seafood company plans to farm them commercially. Octopus garden? Sure. Octopus farm? No way, say the animal's advocates.

And the octopus would respond by swimming over and looking for food there," Schnell said. "Maybe she preferred me as a hunting partner," the biologist says in the video clip from the series.

An octopus cyanea hunting with a blue goatfish, while a blacktip grouper lies in wait. The snout of a cornetfish is also visible on the top of the picture. Credit: Eduardo Sampaio and Simon Gingins.