Recently, a deep sea octopus brought back to a laboratory laid fertilized eggs that successfully hatched, providing a unique window into their reproduction and development process. Researchers from UC ...

Unprecedented numbers of the common octopus have been found in British waters this year, but what’s behind the rare ‘bloom’?

A female pearl octopus broods her eggs in 2022 at the "octopus garden" near the Davidson Seamount off the California coast. (MBARI) WASHINGTON — Most octopuses lead solitary lives. So scientists were ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. Sign up Octopus eggs with eye spots before hatching. Photo by Adi Khen The chance rescue of a deep-sea octopus ...

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Thousands of octopus moms displaying a mysterious social behavior among deep-sea hydrothermal springs off the central coast of California may have led scientists to an exciting breakthrough, according ...

Octopus could be poised to join salmon and shrimp on the list of farmed seafood—if scientists, corporations, and critics can ...

It's not all that unusual to see octopus on a restaurant menu. But an octopus as a family pet? Cameron Clifford of Edmond, Okla. says his 9-year-old son Cal is a huge fan of the eight-legged creatures ...

11:52 a.m. Dec. 28, 2022: Photo captions in an earlier version of this story stated that the Kanaloa Octopus Farm was making efforts to breed octopus for human consumption. Although the facility’s ...