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.

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 ...

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

A rare Indian octopus squid, Taningia silasii, has been discovered in the Arabian Sea, marking a significant find for ...

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

A lab at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography figures out a ‘mafia-inspired’ way to produce large amounts of a natural pigment some creatures use to camouflage themselves ...

The global search for the most intelligent animals has become one of science’s most captivating pursuits. From jungles to ...