A photo of an octopus (seen here in a computer illustration) that appears to have fallen from the sky after being swept from the sea in Qingdao, China, went viral on Chinese social media. A photo ...

Tako to Ama (or, Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife) is a beautiful woodcut illustration from 1814 by Katsushika Hokusai and the ancestor of Japanese tentacle ...

The new CEO of Octopus Energy US talks about clean power's future amid a hostile political environment, and why renewable energy is booming in oil-rich Texas.

Animalia If an octopus is so smart, should you eat it? Just as we begin to understand cephalopods’ brains, seafood companies want to farm the animals commercially ...

Jalen Hurts Wins 2022 Octopus of the Year Award for Super Bowl LVII Performance The Eagles’ star quarterback remains focused on winning the Lombardi Trophy, but he took a little time to ...

Some English fishermen have hit the jackpot this season, hauling in tons of octopus, but the invasion of the eight-legged molluscs also highlights the threat from marine heat waves. Persistent ...

“So you have to feel the octopus. Can we do that? Close your eyes, and move like the octopus…” Illustration courtesy of Ivan Phillipsen Follow Scientific American on Twitter @SciAm and ...

Artist’s chisel transforms stump outside Peaks Island cafe into an octopus A strong storm that hit the island nearly 3 years ago blew many trees to the ground. Doug Smith saw one stump that was ...

Later, when the octopus is caught outside its den, it suckers up a mess of shells and rolls itself inside them, like a seafloor party cheese ball. The bewildered shark pokes at this assembly, and ...

Octopus's Garden, out Tuesday (Simon & Schuster), sets Starr's lyrics to illustrations by Ben Cort, the artist behind The Shark in the Dark and the best-selling Aliens Love Underpants.

The illustration's original title: "Lifting a Dreamer"Quaranto directed me, too, to this 2008 Flickr discussion in which the term "fail whale" appears repeatedly. Origins of the nickname aside, Lu ...