Argonaut (Argonauta argo) must go through to send baby argonauts out into the world. This octopus species lives in open water ...

Among animals, few life cycles are as dramatic as that of the octopus. After a single reproductive event, many females enter a rapid decline that ends with them literally tearing at their own bodies, ...

The researchers primarily studied California two-spot octopuses. Jerry Kirkhart via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Octopus sex seems like a very dignified affair. A male octopus hands his sperm to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have now learned a lot more about the sex life of the California two-spot octopus. Octopus sex hinges on a peculiar ...

Octopuses are freaky and mysterious, and they're notoriously difficult to study. But research on one particularly freaky species shows us just how much we have left to learn about cephalopods: The ...

Octopuses are famous for their problem‑solving brains and shape‑shifting bodies, yet their lives end in a way that looks more like a horror film than a nature documentary. After mating, both males and ...

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The California two-spot octopus is a solitary creature. How exactly they manage to find suitable mates has been one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets. Now scientists have discovered that male octopuses ...

This alien and extraordinarily intimate image provides a rare glimpse of a Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus briareus) mother and her potential offspring at the Blue Heron Bridge dive area, off ...

The love life of a male blue-lined octopus is tough. Like praying mantises and widow spiders, a female blue-lined octopus will often kill and eat the male after mating. It's just a circle of life for ...