A six-year-old boy was left covered in bruises after an enormous octopus grabbed his arm and wouldn't let go. Britney Taryn, the boy’s mother, spoke about the incident, which occurred during a July 14 ...

Even without noses, octopuses are able to determine which food sources are good to eat and which have gone past their prime simply by touching them. The secret, says a new study, lies with surface ...

The octopuses eat the tissues in the jellyfish's body, or bell, and then pull the prey's stinging tentacles along behind them ...

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

Most carnivores have teeth to grasp and eat prey, so marine animals with teeth are not uncommon. Sharks, dolphins, eels, whales, many fish species, and marine mammals like seals and sea lions have ...

A wildlife charity has declared 2025 "the Year of the Blooming Octopus" after record numbers were spotted off the south-west ...

Along the rocky shores of eastern Australia, a small brown octopus is unassuming as it blends in with its surroundings. When the octopus is scared or hungry, however, it becomes one of the most ...