Almost a half-mile below Monterey Bay's surface, California scientists recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a ...

On a rocky outcrop almost 2 miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica, researchers have documented an active octopus nursery. It may be the third known example of a brooding site ...

The animal can reach lengths of 13 feet and weigh up to 165 pounds.

It’s no secret the deep sea is home to some strange-looking animals, so might we introduce you to yet another weirdo: the ...

In 2017, the Schmidt Ocean Institute—a research institute founded by husband and wife team Eric and Wendy Schmidt —sent its Falkor research vessel to the southern half of the Phoenix Islands in the ...

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A species of octopus discovered living in the Monterey Bay is so cute, MBARI scientists want to give it a special name. MBARI researcher Stephanie Bush pitched the scientific name, Opisthoteuthis ...

Scientists exploring the deep waters near the Hawaiian Islands spotted a rare "Dumbo" octopus about a mile below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The octopus was seen on an unnamed seamount in the ...

An almost completely transparent "glass octopus" was sighted in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in June by marine scientists on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor. The rarely ...

HONOLULU — Scientists exploring deep waters northwest of the Hawaiian Islands have released a video of a rare “Dumbo octopus” that was sighted about a mile beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

The other known octopus nursery is about 3,200 meters (2 miles) below the ocean surface on the Davidson Seamount off the coast of Monterey, California, where thousands of octopuses cluster around a ...