Monitoring and studying wildlife as closely as the Blue Planet II crew do in order to make the show, they're occasionally privy to never before observed creatures and behaviours. We saw that in ...

A new blue octopus species, Microeledone galapagensis, was recently discovered near Darwin Island in northern Galápagos.

2 Regal Spotlighting Movie Musicals with New Screening Series This May Dr. David Scheel, a professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, raises a day octopus in a tank in his ...

Balloon Artist Laural Schultze is back on The Slice, and this time she's teaching us how to create our own balloon octopus! Get your balloons out (if you have them) and follow along! Or just sit back ...

One morning, biologist Leah Bushin checked on a flask of bacteria and noticed something unusual: the liquid had turned a deep maroon. The microbes had produced xanthommatin, a natural pigment that, ...

The New England Aquarium has a new resident.Tatoosh, a 2-year-old giant Pacific octopus, is making its debut on exhibit this week. The nearly 8-pound octopus is named after an island that is part of a ...

BELLEVUE, WA--Researchers studying the behavior and neuroscience of octopuses have long suspected that the animals' arms may have minds of their own. A new model being presented here is the first ...