Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

A video of an octopus' hiding in plain sight before popping out to spook a diver has gone viral. The video shows a nearly invisible octopus, seamlessly blending in with the seafloor, before turning ...

You wouldn’t think a giant octopus could hide in plain sight for decades. But researchers have now learned that the giant Pacific octopus (GPO)—the largest known octopus on Earth, ranging from ...

The crinkly form of a small, dried octopus lay on a desk in Washington, D.C., 170 years ago. The curious cephalopod, which had been collected more than 7,000 kilometers away in Brazil, was one of ...

A diver in Cyprus was amazed after an octopus he regularly swims with seemed to play a game of hide and seek with him. Matthew Hyatt, who posts daily videos of his attempt to befriend this octopus, ...