While other octopus books study the animal's behavior in aquaria or tropical waters worldwide, Dr. David Scheel, a professor of Marine Biology at Alaska Pacific University, takes a unique approach ...

An online video shows the moment a Giant octopus approaches and gets petted by a human. The clip has gone viral, sparking hilarious reactions from netizens.

A widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Shelby Van Pelt about her new novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures. It centers heartache, loss — and how ...

This octopus is actually on the smaller side compared to other giant Pacific octopuses, which can grow as large as 16 feet long, officials said. Makenzie Elliott covers breaking news and public ...

The giant Pacific octopus is the biggest in the world, with an average length of 16 feet. They weigh in at 110 pounds and ...

A giant Pacific octopus at an aquarium in 2012. Kurt Desplenter/AFP/Getty Images. Some data suggests the octopuses may see mixed impacts of increasing urbanization on land.

I’m speaking of the giant Pacific octopus — a creature that lives wildly right outside your doorstep. But you’d have to go to outer space, or to science fiction, to find a being more unlike ...

A video shared to TikTok on Nov. 9, 2024, claimed to show a "giant sea white octopus caught by fishermen" and included a geolocation tag of the "United States." In the video, multiple people were ...

The Giant Pacific octopus can grow as large as 16 feet long and averages around 110 pounds at maturity, according to Oregon State University’s Oregon Sea Grant program. If you spot one in the ...

Is intelligence a human construct? “Octopus!” suggests its time to think differently about animals Seeing ourselves in animals could limit what we find out about them.

Giant Pacifics survive only three to five years, and Athena was already old for an octopus when I met her. But over the course of the next three years, I got to know her successors at the aquarium ...

Some species like the giant Pacific octopus can live up to five years at most. To keep fish populations sustainable, fisheries must ensure that enough breeding individuals are either left alone or ...