Washington — Most octopuses lead solitary lives. So scientists were startled to find thousands of them huddled together, protecting their eggs at the bottom of the ocean off the central California ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most octopuses lead solitary lives. So scientists were startled to find thousands of octopus huddled together, protecting their eggs at the bottom of the ocean off the central ...

When a basket of raw octopuses on a bed of ice was brought to the table of a hot pot restaurant in China, a diner was fortunate to have waited before digging in. What gave the diner pause was a ...

This 2019 image from video provided by MBARI shows an aggregation of female pearl octopuses (Muusoctopus robustus) nesting at the "octopus garden," near the Davidson Seamount off the California coast ...