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 ...

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 ...

This coral-colored octopus, called a "Flapjack" octopus, can be found all over the world, but a recent expedition led by the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Trinidad and Tobago caught video of one of these ...

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 ...

Even with eight legs it was difficult to hang on during this week’s bomb cyclone in British Columbia, with a remote camera capturing an octopus battling currents whipped up by the hurricane-force ...

When Inky the octopus squeezed through a drain pipe and vanished into the ocean, he exposed something uncomfortable about how humans see these blue-blooded, three-hearted creatures with minds unlike ...

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 ...

The Dumbo octopus is known as the cutest octopus in the world because of its pudgy shape and fins that look like gigantic ...