The word “fossil” tends to evokes calcified bones or shells — the “hard” body parts of an animal that died long ago. That’s partially because it is very rare for soft tissue — literal flesh making up ...

The Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) is the largest octopus ever found. Learn about its record-breaking size, ...

KING 5 anchor Greg Copeland shares fun facts about our eight-armed cephalopod friends on World Octopus Day. Fort Sam employee ...

World Octopus Day reveals how intelligent, adaptable, and important octopuses are to our planet’s oceans today.

Between 443.7 and 416 million years ago, three orthocone cephalopods died in Door County in the same spot, at roughly the ...

The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.

Scientists have named a new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from fossils found in Mistelgau, Germany. The marine reptile had a dramatic overbite similar to swordfish and unique skeletal ...

Cephalopods like octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid display a range of deceptive behaviors, which may rely on sophisticated cognitive abilities such as Theory of Mind.

Many animals use deception to get what they want. Most of these sneaky tactics are instinctual; however, a few creatures engage in tactical deception: They adapt their tricks depending on their goal ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Who better to midwife a giant mythical cephalopod than finance’s most famous great vampire squid? Octopus ...

You might remember news reporting from earlier this year that a 180-foot asteroid had about a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. And if it did, it would unleash energy equivalent to hundreds of ...

The tiny octopuses are found in Australia’s and Japan’s coastal waters, where they take cover in coral reefs and tide pools. The octopus employs venomous bites to paralyse prey, which it feeds on in ...