Octopuses can open jars, use tools, solve puzzles and even recognize individual human faces staring back at them through aquarium glass. Should they serve as menu items, too? Whether stuffed into ...

Whether grilled, on sushin or mixed into stir fry or ceviche, there are many ways to consume octopus. But given their well-known, almost human-like intelligence, it begs the question: is it ethical to ...

Lurking in the ocean's twilight zone - an area between 650 and 3,000 feet below the surface where light rarely reaches - is the seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus). Also known as the septopus, ...

Octopi and seagulls have an eat-or-be-eaten relationship; either one could easily be the predator or prey in the right situation. It’s common enough to see gulls snatching sea critters out of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is barely lunchtime, but Alan Steer, 56, and his crew have already pulled in close to two tons of octopus off the coast of ...

Perhaps it’s time we stopped feeling quite so bad about eating octopus. Octopuses dine on other octopuses, too. And for the first time, that behavior has been caught on video in the common octopus in ...