These are flanked by hair-like projections called cirri. This places them in the deep-sea cirrate octopus group, which is one of the two main divisions of octopuses. The other division is the ...

Meet the Giant Pacific Octopus, perhaps the smartest of all invertebrates and the bane of many a crab fisherman. Boasting an enormous brain, this voracious poacher can adopt a number of creative ...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge joins as narrator and executive producer for 'Octopus!', an Amazon Prime wildlife documentary ...

Deep in the ocean, living in eternal darkness, is the dumbo octopus (of the genus Grimpoteuthis), a creature that few humans have seen face-to-face. When someone is lucky enough to spot one ...

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around eight ... They are “cirrate” octopuses, a group of deep-sea octopuses that have slender protrusions trailing from their suckers called ...

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 ...