Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. (Eduardo Sampaio and Simon Gingins) ...

It turns out solitary octopuses actually like to partake in multi-species hunting parties. They join fish on their revels and have even been caught disciplining unruly hunting companions with a sly ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The article -- which made me laugh out loud several times, including a well-placed 'Parks and Recreations' reference -- explicitly recalls the now infamous hunting of a giant Pacific octopus at a ...

Video from a recent study shows multiple examples of octopuses using their tentacles to punch fish, but it's not part of a sanctioned aquatic boxing match. Instead, researchers said the animals do ...

Slowly sneaking up on its prey and carefully reaching an arm over to tap it on the shoulder, the larger Pacific striped octopus startles its food into its arms. As if this recently observed behavior ...

Unlike most octopuses, which tackle their prey with all eight arms, a rediscovered tropical octopus subtly taps its prey on the shoulder and startles it into its arms. “I’ve never seen anything like ...

Seven areas of Puget Sound are now off-limits for the recreational hunting of giant Pacific octopus. The new restrictions, which went into effect on Sunday, apply to portions of King, Pierce and ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – A Washington state panel on Friday prohibited the recreational hunting of giant Pacific octopuses at seven popular scuba diving sites in the Puget Sound region, following an ...

A wild octopus surprised an Australian diver this week by suddenly, and quite dramatically, inflating itself with water, ballooning up like a parachute. Later, when the diver posted a video of the ...

High-speed video recordings reveal that the cephalopod’s eight arms aren’t moving randomly when they go in for the kill. By Veronique Greenwood In its small glass aquarium, an octopus is coiled ...