These creatures, often referred to as cryptids, range from the plausible, like the giant squid (once a myth, now a scientific reality), to the more fantastical, such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness ...

An octopus patrols a shallow reef, searching for food–and it’s not alone. A flurry of fish move alongside it, in a group hunting phenomenon observed in multiple marine locations around the world.

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

News that the world's first commercial octopus farm is closer to becoming reality has been met with dismay by scientists and conservationists. They argue such intelligent "sentient" creatures ...

An experimental new medical patch addresses that issue by utilizing octopus-inspired suckers. Most medical patches are much like band-aids, in that they utilize adhesive chemicals – glues ...

This was proven experimentally in 2011 when researchers tested whether an octopus could learn to guide one of its arms through a maze to reach food. The maze was designed so that the arm would have to ...

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around eight inches), relatively short arms, bell-shaped body, pale coloring, and tendency to hover over the seafloor, and you’ve got a cephalopod ...

Pensioners reeling from having the winter fuel payment of up to £300 axed have been handed a lifeline by energy supplier Octopus. This week the change was voted through Parliament by the ...

Octopus Energy has promised to send Winter Fuel Payments out to state pensioners who will lose out on their £300 payments this winter. The gas and electricity supplier has promised to set up its ...

Beth Orcutt wants to learn more about life at the bottom of the ocean, to inform decision-making on deep sea mining. Watching documentaries about the Titanic inspired deep-sea microbiologist Beth ...

We contacted Octopus and it said that there are over 30 million smart meters now installed across Britain, and on the whole, they work incredibly well. Of course, with any technology, there are ...

“Not just one octopus and one fish,” Sampaio says. “We’re talking about one octopus and five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten very different fish.” Sponsor Message For years, the hierarchy ...