In quiet crevices of coral reefs and rocky ocean floors, a female octopus begins one of the most intense phases of her life. After laying thousands of delicate eggs, she settles into a protective ...

The chance rescue of a deep-sea octopus from a line trap gave researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego the opportunity to make unprecedented observations. This particular ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking finding into the reproduction habits of pearl octopus, after a real life "octopus garden" inhabited by thousands of the creatures was discovered about 90 miles ...

Argonaut octopuses are rarely seen by humans, as they live in the open ocean away from shores. Females have a thin shell that carries their eggs, giving them the nickname 'paper nautilus.' Males have ...

Two miles below the ocean’s surface off the coast of central California, researchers recently spotted what looked like a forest of ghostly blobs. The blobs turned out to be more than a thousand female ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. An aggregation of female pearl octopus ...