By combining custom engineering with behavioral science, Swedish YouTuber Mattias Krantz taught an octopus named Tako to play the piano.

Unprecedented numbers of the common octopus have been found in British waters this year, but what’s behind the rare ‘bloom’?

A wildlife charity has declared 2025 "the Year of the Blooming Octopus" after record numbers were spotted off the south-west ...

Check out this video of an octopus literally crawling out of the water and dragging itself across dry land in pursuit of a meal. A family with a camera was lucky enough to be on the scene and captured ...

The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

Recent trailers for Finding Dory, Pixar's highly anticipated sequel to 2003's Finding Nemo, introduced fans to a whole new cast of characters and, unlike Finding Nemo, a great number of the supporting ...

A stranded octopus gets a helping hand back to the ocean and takes the time to "high five" the rescuer. What really happened?

This crab never knew what hit him. An octopus in western Australia snagged a crab for dinner, despite the crustacean being out of the water. The strike occurs at about the 20-second mark, then the ...

Most octopuses live and breathe underwater, just like the vast majority of other marine animals. But this octopus endemic to Australia has a special ability in that it can survive outside of the water ...

A prankster octopus that can juggle hermit crabs and try to use a rock to smash his way out of his aquarium has now been discovered as the cause of regular short-circuits in an aquarium by spraying ...