On May 8, 2025, the nature documentary Octopus! was released on Prime. The underwater documentary, produced and narrated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, tells the fascinating story of an octopus’s incredible ...

It's not all that unusual to see octopus on a restaurant menu. But an octopus as a family pet? Cameron Clifford of Edmond, Okla. says his 9-year-old son Cal is a huge fan of the eight-legged creatures ...

Two miles under the ocean’s surface, in one final act, a lavendar-colored pearl octopus about the size of a grapefruit selects a nesting site. After gluing about 60 sausage-shaped eggs to that perfect ...

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

11:52 a.m. Dec. 28, 2022: Photo captions in an earlier version of this story stated that the Kanaloa Octopus Farm was making efforts to breed octopus for human consumption. Although the facility’s ...

A beloved octopus is entering the last stage of her life in Long Beach,and will spend the remainder of her days caring for eggs that will never hatch. News of the approaching demise of Ghost — a giant ...

Legend has it, Ringo Starr wrote Abbey Road’s “Octopus’s Garden” after a sailing trip in Sardinia with the late Pink Panther actor, Peter Sellers. Sellers told Ringo about how octopuses liked ...