Every October 8, attention turns to one of the ocean’s most distinctive animals. Octopuses stand out for their eight arms, ...

By Mongabay.com Happy World Octopus Day! Every Oct 8, the world celebrates one of the more unusual creatures of the sea.

World Octopus Day 2026 highlights octopuses' unusual intelligence, including learning, problem-solving, tool use and flexible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Octopuses can solve complex puzzles, use tools, and escape secure aquariums. Part of its brain lives in its arms. It can see with ...

Why did this mother octopus continue to protect her eggs for four and a half years without eating anything?For octopuses in ...

Birch Aquarium live food culture specialist Eric Ng recently explained the specialized methods used to raise delicate marine ...

Two senators have introduced a bill that would help block child predators from obtaining visas and entering the United States.

An Octopus Escapes From Its Aquarium: The Way It Made It Back To The Ocean Is Incredible© Ann Antonova/ via Canva.com Inky the octopus made headlines in New Zealand after slipping out of his aquarium ...

The coconut octopus has solved a problem that stumps most soft-bodied ocean creatures: how to survive on a wide-open, featureless seafloor teeming with predators. Its solution involves tools, forward ...

Under a University of Bologna effort called Octo-Blu, about 80,000 common octopuses raised in captivity have been released ...

SCARDOVARI, Italy — Italian fishermen for two years incinerated most of the invasive Atlantic blue crabs caught in the Po River Delta south of Venice. Few Italians had an appetite for the alien ...

ITALY has unleashed an army of 130,000 killer octopuses to wipe out a devastating invasion of blue crab. This extreme method of pest control has seen tens of thousands of the tentacled creature ...