An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that ...

It turns out solitary octopuses actually like to partake in multi-species hunting parties. They join fish on their revels and have even been caught disciplining unruly hunting companions with a sly ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The article -- which made me laugh out loud several times, including a well-placed 'Parks and Recreations' reference -- explicitly recalls the now infamous hunting of a giant Pacific octopus at a ...

Video from a recent study shows multiple examples of octopuses using their tentacles to punch fish, but it's not part of a sanctioned aquatic boxing match. Instead, researchers said the animals do ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Hunting giant Pacific octopuses in Puget Sound could be banned or restricted under regulations being considered by a state panel. The Washington state Fish and Wildlife Commission ...

A state panel has prohibited the recreational hunting of giant Pacific octopuses at seven popular scuba diving sites in the Puget Sound region, following an outcry when a man was spotted killing one ...

Slowly sneaking up on its prey and carefully reaching an arm over to tap it on the shoulder, the larger Pacific striped octopus startles its food into its arms. As if this recently observed behavior ...

High-speed video recordings reveal that the cephalopod’s eight arms aren’t moving randomly when they go in for the kill. By Veronique Greenwood In its small glass aquarium, an octopus is coiled ...

When the larger Pacific striped octopus was first observed in the 1970s, its unusual social and mating behavior were so strange that no one would publish it. But researchers have now found it all true ...