The new species, named Microeledone galapagensis, has a blue hue, which is believed to be the rarest color in nature.

If you were to make a case for evidence of extraterrestrial life on Earth, you would probably use octopuses as an example.

Octopuses and squids carry the largest nervous systems of any invertebrate, and roughly two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons ...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that appeared to look like an octopus, complete with what were described as arms, fins ...

A video of the octopus taken using the ROV, with audio of the scientists viewing the feed exclaiming that it's "a cute little guy." The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than ...

A famous fossil once considered the world’s oldest octopus has been reidentified as a distant relative of the nautilus, overturning decades of scientific belief. Published today in Proceedings of the ...

A newly identified deep-sea octopus discovered near the Galápagos Islands is challenging long-held assumptions about octopus ...

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus – even featuring in the Guinness Book of Records – has turned out to be something else altogether. In what ...