A dietitian explores the health benefits, downsides, and nutritional value of eating octopus. The octopus is a type of cephalopod that lives in the ocean. It’s well-known for having eight legs and ...

With their quick-change camouflage and high level of intelligence, it’s not surprising that the public and scientific experts alike are fascinated by octopuses. Their abilities to recognize faces, ...

SISAL, YUCATÁN, MEXICO — In a damp, darkened shoreside laboratory near the Yucatán hamlet of Sisal, Carlos Rosas Vázquez lifts one of the scores of small conch shells littering a black plastic tank.

If you think that 9 months is a long time to wait for a baby, be glad that you are not an octopus. Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) recently announced the longest ...