Although the so-called “gloomy octopus” has the reputation of being a loner, 15 such octopuses make up the population of a “city” scientists have dubbed as “Octlantis.” And reports suggest that the ...

Octopuses are insanely talented: They’ve been observed building forts, playing games, and even walking on dry land. But one area where the cephalopods come up short is in the social department. At ...

Alaska Pacific University professor David Schell and a team of researchers recently found a colony of gloomy octopuses (also known as common Sydney octopuses) living together in Jervis Bay near ...

A new 'octopus city' is turning our understanding of how octopi co-exist with one another upside-down. While researchers have always considered these creatures to be somewhat asocial, the octopi in ...