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, ...

This octopus survives in plain sight. Here’s how it adapts its body in real time to mirror dangerous species and navigate one ...

It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to ...