Emma Knight’s recent coming-of-age bestseller “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus” has been set up as a TV series at Amazon’s MGM Television. Based on the book of the same name, the series is ...

11:52 a.m. Dec. 28, 2022: Photo captions in an earlier version of this story stated that the Kanaloa Octopus Farm was making efforts to breed octopus for human consumption. Although the facility’s ...

Though it’s common on the West Coast, little has been known about the reproductive cycle of the deep-sea North Pacific bigeye octopus — until now. After making a chance rescue of a female bigeye last ...

Two miles under the ocean’s surface, in one final act, a lavendar-colored pearl octopus about the size of a grapefruit selects a nesting site. After gluing about 60 sausage-shaped eggs to that perfect ...

A giant Pacific octopus — named Grindylow, after the underwater cryptid from English folklore — recently died at the Aquarium of the Pacific, officials announced this week. The female octopus was ...

Sandwiched here between the Pacific Ocean and Kona Airport — atop a dusty volcanic desert — dozens of 50-gallon water tanks gurgle and bubble away; each home to a solitary, wild-caught octopus and a ...