Octopus

A new three-part docu-series is coming to Nat Geo LIVE this Earth Day - a fantastic glimpse into the lives and behaviours of octopuses

Marine Megafauna Foundation scientists' report the surprise discovery of the shape-shifting mimic octopus in Mozambique 

A review of Many Things Under a Rock - The Mysteries of Octopuses, by David Scheel - a fascinating book about a fascinating subject

Thousands of breeding Octopuses - an 'Octopus Garden' - have found in the deep sea near Monterey Bay, California

A potentially new species of octopus has been found during a 19-day expedition that discovered the third known octopus nursery in world

Plans to build the first indoor octopus farm in Gran Canaria are raising concerns about the ethics of farming such intelligent creatures

Female octopuses filmed throwing 'missiles' at unwanted advancing male sex pests

Huge numbers of octopus have been seen along the coast of southern England in what experts are describing as a 'bumper year' for sightings.

A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris). Photo: Henner Damke/Shutterstock By Alexandra Schnel, Heather Browning and Jonathan Birch When you imagine an…

Preview video of an unmissable film My Octopus Teacher, about the touching relationship between a man and an octopus. Essential viewing

Franco Banfi's guide to diving with cephalopods - squid, octopus and cuttlefish; their natural history and where to find them