Atlantic blue crabs have moved into the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, where they are a problem both for ecosystems and ...

The effort, called Octo-Blu, aims to strengthen a native octopus population rather than introduce a new species ...

Italian scientists have released 130,000 common octopuses (and counting) to fight blue crabs that have proliferated in parts ...

Italy is fighting an invasive crab species with a weapon that sounds almost too strange to be true. The country has released ...

From a fishing trawler in the Adriatic, Italian scientists gently release thousands of tiny octopuses in the hope of fighting ...

Around 130,000 common octopus paralarvae, or newly hatched octopuses, have been released into waters off Italy as part of a ...

Octopuses are fascinating animals—and serve as important model organisms in neuroscience, cognition research and developmental biology. To gain a deeper understanding of their biology and evolutionary ...

They change shape and color, and squirt ink. But they also will return your gaze, "as if they're scrutinizing you." ...

Photographs taken off Berry Head, Devon, show a common octopus wrapping its arms around the dorsal fin of a Risso’s dolphin.

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 ...