One day over the summer, the boats unloading at Newlyn fish market brought in 9.5 tonnes of seafood. Nine tonnes of it was octopus. Nobody had slipped a decimal point. Cornwall hadn’t briefly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Octopus in actionGetty Images/Nikos Stavrinidis/500px Whether grilled, on sushin or mixed into stir fry or ceviche, there are many ...

Learn what this seven-armed cephalopod loves to eat and how it catches its prey. Lurking in the ocean’s twilight zone — an area between 650 and 3,000 feet below the surface where light rarely reaches ...

Octopi and seagulls have an eat-or-be-eaten relationship; either one could easily be the predator or prey in the right situation. It’s common enough to see gulls snatching sea critters out of the ...

Researchers have suggested that, as particularly intelligent and playful creatures, octopuses are unsuited to a life in captivity and mass-production. Animal rights activists argue that farming ...

Perhaps it’s time we stopped feeling quite so bad about eating octopus. Octopuses dine on other octopuses, too. And for the first time, that behavior has been caught on video in the common octopus in ...