When Proteroctopus was first described, it was thought to be an early octopus. However, the 2016 study repositioned it as a basal member of Vampyropoda, the group that includes both vampire squids ...

More than a fanciful shark-octopus hybrid featured in low-budget sci-fi films of the 2010s, the "sharktopus" has been spotted in real life - well, kind of. The sighting was not that of some mish ...

I continue to dive everyday. My octopus teacher sadly only lived for a year and a half - full old-age for an octopus. I've already seen 5 generations of octopus come and go. I've realised that an ...

Their eyes weren’t deceiving them. An octopus was riding the shark. They nicknamed it the “sharktopus” and said it was one of the strangest things they had ever seen in the ocean.