An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that ...

Video from a recent study shows multiple examples of octopuses using their tentacles to punch fish, but it's not part of a sanctioned aquatic boxing match. Instead, researchers said the animals do ...

Octopuses are widely known for their intelligence, including problem-solving, tool use, and complex hunting behavior. For ...

The article -- which made me laugh out loud several times, including a well-placed 'Parks and Recreations' reference -- explicitly recalls the now infamous hunting of a giant Pacific octopus at a ...

Slowly sneaking up on its prey and carefully reaching an arm over to tap it on the shoulder, the larger Pacific striped octopus startles its food into its arms. As if this recently observed behavior ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A state panel has prohibited the recreational hunting of giant Pacific octopuses at seven popular scuba diving sites in the Puget Sound region, following an outcry when a man was spotted killing one ...

This is the hilarious moment that an octopus smacked a fish in the face while both animals were hunting together underwater. Video footage shows the tentacled creature appearing to be solely focused ...