Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images We ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) swims off Croatia in the Mediterranean Sea. A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) swims off ...

Beachcombing after a strong winter cold front can be equal parts fascinating and sobering. This week was no exception along the Texas coast. With water temperatures dropping quickly over the last ...

Octopuses are capable of sophisticated tasks, from solving puzzles to decorating their dens to remembering people's faces. So when a company in Spain announced that it wanted to commercially farm ...

Beachcombing after a strong winter cold front can be equal parts fascinating and sobering. This week was no exception along the Texas coast. With water temperatures dropping quickly over the last ...

Octopuses, along with their cephalopod cousins squids and cuttlefish, are considered to be some of the most intelligent invertebrates out there. They have large brains and are able to quickly master a ...

We named him Squirt—not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.