“Would you like to meet it?” asks Mote Marine Aquarium biologist Kerry Lee as she gestures to the tank in front of us. I am at Mote’s aquarium on the opposite side of the glass from where visitors are ...

Quick Take Picking up a live electric wire and swinging it around sounds like a terrible idea. For the blanket octopus, it is a daily survival strategy. As if eight arms were not enough, this species ...

Whether it’s spiced in the Spanish style or sliced as Japanese sashimi, octopus as a dish is becoming a victim of its own popularity. Prices for the tentacled mollusc have about doubled in the past ...

The idea that humans and mollusks could have any kind of relationship is remarkable when considering the evolutionary distance between the species. Yet watch the playful relationship between a ...

What “Charlotte’s Web” did in the popular imagination for the humble, much-maligned barn spider, “My Octopus Teacher” sets out to achieve for the eight-limbed mollusc of its title — a creature of ...

Rejoice, octopi aficionados, for we have here another insight into the formidable mind of the soft-bodied alien mollusk! In the below video (posted by ViralHog), an octopus and a diver play a game of ...