This octopus behavior might look funny at first glance, but it reveals how evolution solves complex problems in unexpected ways.

Watching an octopus punch an annoying fish is hugely satisfying to frustrated humans. And other animals do the ...

An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that ...

It turns out solitary octopuses actually like to partake in multi-species hunting parties. They join fish on their revels and have even been caught disciplining unruly hunting companions with a sly ...

Video from a recent study shows multiple examples of octopuses using their tentacles to punch fish, but it's not part of a sanctioned aquatic boxing match. Instead, researchers said the animals do ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

On certain remote shores in northern Australia, the line between sea and land is not as firm as it looks. When the tide drains away, a small, mottled octopus hauls itself out of the shallows and ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – A Washington state panel on Friday prohibited the recreational hunting of giant Pacific octopuses at seven popular scuba diving sites in the Puget Sound region, following an ...