Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods ...

The palm-size creature was spotted and collected during a research expedition more than a decade ago, but scientists have just identified it as a previously undescribed species ...

Four new species of deep-sea octopus have been discovered on underwater mountains around 3 kilometres down in the Pacific off Costa Rica, according to Schmidt Ocean Institute. A radical new theory ...

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A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...

It could be easy to miss a blob the size of a golf ball. But its blue hue—the rarest color in nature—stood out against the sand, grabbing researchers’ attention. It wasn’t a blob but an adorable blue ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Go diving into the intertidal waters of the Great Barrier ...