“If at this point, you’re still considering getting an octopus, maybe first adopt a honey badger and see how that goes,” the family joked to its 362,200 TikTok followers.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge narrates a new Amazon Prime Video two-part documentary special called "Octopus!", which explores the quirks of octopuses and premieres on May 8 ...

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Amorous octopus latches on to hunky model shooting swimming video — and won’t let go: ‘Get a room’ By . Taylor Knight. Published Jan. 10, 2025, 9:15 p.m. ET. Talk about clingy.

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 ...

Nine arms, no problem. In 2021, researchers from the Institute of Marine Research in Spain used an underwater camera to follow a male Octopus vulgaris, or common octopus. On its left side, three ...

An octopus hitched a ride on the back of a mako shark in extraordinary nature footage released by the University of Auckland. Researchers at the institution dubbed the underwater friendship ...

If the octopus slid off, the shark could have eaten it. Equally, in waters this shallow — just 100 to 130 feet deep — there’s a chance the octopus could have landed safely on the seabed.