In many ways, the octopus is a tough proposition: a soft-bodied mollusc that carries the bulk of its brain in its arms, that can render itself solid without a skeleton or liquid despite its beak, that ...

A mother and her two daughters aged 3 and 5 found an octopus that "looked dead" in the sand on Kleinbaai Beach Blouberg in South Africa's Cape Town. After returning the octopus to the ocean, the ...

A few American politicians are taking a stand for octopus-kind by introducing a bill that would ban the commercial farming of the eight-armed mollusc in the United States, while also prohibiting the ...

A feature film based on Paul the 'psychic' octopus has been completed, according to Sky News. The mollusc successfully predicted the winners of eight games at this year's FIFA World Cup in South ...