An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that ...

It turns out solitary octopuses actually like to partake in multi-species hunting parties. They join fish on their revels and have even been caught disciplining unruly hunting companions with a sly ...

Scientists have recently documented a behavior that looks almost comedic at first glance: an octopus suddenly reaching out ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Video from a recent study shows multiple examples of octopuses using their tentacles to punch fish, but it's not part of a sanctioned aquatic boxing match. Instead, researchers said the animals do ...

Slowly sneaking up on its prey and carefully reaching an arm over to tap it on the shoulder, the larger Pacific striped octopus startles its food into its arms. As if this recently observed behavior ...

A wild octopus surprised an Australian diver this week by suddenly, and quite dramatically, inflating itself with water, ballooning up like a parachute. Later, when the diver posted a video of the ...

Unlike most octopuses, which tackle their prey with all eight arms, a rediscovered tropical octopus subtly taps its prey on the shoulder and startles it into its arms. “I’ve never seen anything like ...

After the recent outcry over the killing of an octopus off Alki Beach, the State Department of Fish & Wildlife is now looking into banning octopus hunting in the Puget Sound. “We’re initiating a ...

High-speed video recordings reveal that the cephalopod’s eight arms aren’t moving randomly when they go in for the kill. By Veronique Greenwood In its small glass aquarium, an octopus is coiled ...

When the larger Pacific striped octopus was first observed in the 1970s, its unusual social and mating behavior were so strange that no one would publish it. But researchers have now found it all true ...