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Fascinated by what the sea creatures might think, feel and like, Japanese artist Shimabuku documented their reactions to ...
We were given a behind-the-scenes look at the daily tasks assigned to the aquarists of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell ...
What was supposed to be a routine online aquarium unboxing turned into chaos when two octopuses came face-to-face and things escalated fast. Watch as territorial instincts kick in, and find out how ...
Help come up with a name for Detroit's new eight-legged creature, as a one-year-old male octopus from the Pacific Northwest has traveled to Belle Isle Aquarium. The aquarium unveiled the octopus ...
Now, thanks to videos from a team of researchers, we have learned about another octopus skill: punching unsuspecting fish in the face. The team, led by marine biologist Eduardo Sampaio, ...
Inky the octopus has gained worldwide fame for escaping from his aquarium at the National Aquarium of New Zealand, and finding his way back to the ocean where he was taken from in 2014.
Octopus Week at Seattle Aquarium is this Saturday through Feb. 27. Giant Pacific octopuses will be released into Puget Sound on Saturday and Feb. 26 at noon, and visitors will be able to watch by ...
A team at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour from Germany filmed 13 different hunting groups, consisting of octopus and different species of fish, in the Red Sea off the coast of Israel. ...
A new film captures a circular game of copycat: a fish that mimics an octopus that mimics fish. First described by scientists in 1998, the remarkable mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) can shift ...
An octopus is fitting for the Detroit aquarium, where fans tossing an octopus onto the ice has become a signature of hockey playoffs, eight legs symbolizing the eight original teams.
Pacific giant octopus Farallon created two paintings at The Florida Aquarium in June 2021. It is the first time the aquatic animal has done so in the Tampa facility, Aquarium Biologist Halley ...
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 ...