Captured on video giving a warning 'back-off' spurt of water to the camera, a fossil-hunting family from North Yorkshire were ...

This video highlights an octopus so unusually cute that its behavior instantly draws attention. Close footage reveals expressive movements and surprising flashes of intelligence. Scientists explain ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates unveiled his 2025 holiday reading list, featuring five books designed to spark curiosity. His ...

Learn more about the genetics of the vampire squid — a strange species whose genome suggests that modern octopuses, squids, ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

Researchers from Vienna and Japan sequenced the largest cephalopod genome. They analysed the genome of the vampire squid from ...

Bill Gates reveals the books that shaped his winter, spotlighting bold ideas, deep insight and stories that push you to think ...

These extreme ocean events typically happen around the time of the full moon in December and January but sometimes extend ...

For decades, biologists treated a familiar marine invertebrate as a kind of living afterthought, a translucent tube that ...

This novel has a remarkably unusual central character: a giant Pacific octopus, Marcellus, who is living at the aquarium in ...

Whether in an aquarium or the wild, the Great Pacific octopus is a solitary creature with a short lifespan of three to five ...