Robots exploring the ocean floor today use pre-programmed movements, centralized processors, and rigid structures to do their work. But the sea is unpredictable, and that architecture struggles ...

At first glance, it’s just another patch of ocean floor. Divers swim past without noticing anything unusual—until something ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abyssal depths of the world's oceans are a place of eerie mystery. The creatures that lurk therein live strange lives, vastly ...

A team of scientists working off the coast of Costa Rica have identified four previously unknown deep-sea octopus species in the vicinity of hydrothermal springs on the ocean floor. They also ...

Octopuses and fish are routinely seen working together on the ocean floor, and now scientists say that the cephalopods are the leaders of the pack. By Elizabeth Preston Elizabeth Preston wrote about ...

It's well known that the octopus is extremely intelligent, and that they often are friendly with people. The Weather Channel shared a video on Wednesday, April 17th of a diver who got a once in a ...

Can you imagine spending your entire life without ever touching the floor? Well, that’s the reality for this octopus. Pelagic octopuses go their entire lives without ever touching the shore or the ...

With ear-like fins that flap gracefully through the water, the Dumbo octopus in this YouTube video looks like it waltzed straight out of an animation studio. But don't let their cute facade fool you; ...