The dumbo octopus is well-suited to the deep sea in another way too. "Their enzymes have adapted over evolutionary time to allow them to live under pressure and cold temperatures," says Dr. Bush.

is under consideration for designation as a high-seas marine protected area. It harbors a thriving deep-sea ecosystem, including species so rare they're yet to be officially named. The newly ...

In the first example of bipedal locomotion under the sea, two tropical octopuses were found to lift up six of their arms and walk backwards on the other two. This allowed the algae octopus, Abdopus ...

Some people who really follow it know that there was an octopus sequence at the end of the movie, before we left the pirate ship chamber, where a giant, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ...

This is the shocking moment an Italian model was attacked by an octopus as he swam in the sea before making friends with the eight-legged sea creature. Milan-based model Federico Cola was on ...

A male model found humour during an unexpected encounter as an octopus latched onto his leg while he swam in the sea. Hunky Federico Cola claimed to have found his "true love" after the creature ...

Two miles beneath the ocean surface, at the base of a deep-sea seamount they uncovered the largest known gathering of octopus in the world – 20,000 pearl octopus breeding in warm hydrothermal ...

The dumbo octopus, named after a Disney character, lives closer to the ocean floor than any of its other octopod relatives. NOAA Ocean Explorer/Wikimedia Commons ...