OCTOPUS

Coconut octopuses are vulnerable to blacktip sharks, who use smell to find prey. With the help of an unlikely ally, this octopus is able to hide from hungry sharks.

Each week, we feature a worthy citizen science project or nature news segment from around the world. This week, as we continue to feature projects to do from home and in honor of World Oceans Day (June 8th), we're featuring Digital Fishers from Ocean Networks ...

Many people would agree that the octopus is one of the most fascinating and strange creatures on the planet. After all, it's a creature with more than half a billion years of evolution on an entirely different path than that of our own, yet is ...

The idea that humans and mollusks could have any kind of relationship is remarkable when considering the evolutionary distance between the species. Yet watch the playful relationship between a teenager, Laurel, and her pet octopus, Heidi.

This octopus has devised an ingenious way to create a moveable shelter by assembling two halves of a coconut shell.

Do octopuses dream? Watch the brilliant color changes of a sleeping octopus that indicates she may be dreaming.

Watch as baby octopuses and squid hatch from their eggs and immediately begin hunting and camouflaging themselves.

Follow an Alaskan professor as he raises and studies a day octopus in his home, making remarkable discoveries about its extraordinary intelligence, personality and skills. Octopuses are able to recognize faces and interact with other individuals.

The news about chocolate just keeps getting better. Well, maybe it really isn’t news since the indigenous tribes of Central America knew centuries ago that cocoa-related products were good for us and they consumed them daily.