The creature, also known as septopus, was found in fragments along the Ythan estuary near Forvie National Nature Reserve, ...

"These were something we clearly hadn't seen before, with a large diameter and big suckers - far too big for the common ...

Arms of the rarely seen species were discovered at an Aberdeenshire national nature reserve.

A large tentacle washed up on a beach in the UK, and it likely belongs to a rare septopus, also known as a giant gelatinous ...

A seven-legged octopus was found on a Scottish beach in late November, with all its body parts scattered in different places. Researchers are puzzled as to how it reached the shore since it typically ...

Size shapes the way animals move, hunt, and survive. For example, in the ocean, ginormous creatures rely on their massive ...

The remains of a rare deep-sea octopus has washed up on a beach in Aberdeenshire. The Forvie National Nature Reserve were alerted to the discovery of a “thick tentacle” located at the beach near ...

Boffins were left baffled at the rare find in Aberdeenshire.

A walker spotted the remains of a seven-arm octopus, the world's largest octopus species, at Forvie National Nature Reserve ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...