New footage reveals a coconut octopus throwing stones to protect its hideout, marking the first time this behavior has been ...

First-of-its-kind footage captures the moment an octopus fires projectiles at predatory fish while hiding in a clam shell, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery captured on film for the Netflix series 'Our Oceans,' a coconut octopus has been observed using ...

It also has a bizarre technique of hunting prey—it will tear off jellyfish tentacles to fish for food. The blanket octopus possesses the largest sex size discrepancy among all animals.

The keepers feed the octopus with mussels and prawns and bits of fish and crab. Sometimes they put the food in a dog toy for him to tease out with his tentacles, so he can practise his hunting skills.

a pair of small fish are spawning. An eel is curled in a hole. A large hermit crab, in its borrowed shell, comes clunking past. And there, sitting on a rock, is a small algae octopus. As you watch ...

Goatfish, for example, often took the lead in encouraging other fish to explore new environments, while the octopus acted as a leader, deciding when and where the group should pause.

When given several different stimuli at the lab, such as dripping fish juice into a tank, chemotactile receptors on the octopus’ suckercups were activated for smell and taste, while ...