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For wild predators, catching, killing and eating prey can sometimes be a risky business. We can see this on the African savannah, where a well-aimed kick from a zebra can spell trouble for a hungry ...

I watched the renowned documentary "My Octopus Teacher" on Netflix, where a famous filmmaker, Craig Foster forges an unusual ...

Octopuses are capable of sophisticated tasks, from solving puzzles to decorating their dens to remembering people's faces. So when a company in Spain announced that it wanted to commercially farm ...

Learn what this seven-armed cephalopod loves to eat and how it catches its prey. Lurking in the ocean’s twilight zone — an area between 650 and 3,000 feet below the surface where light rarely reaches ...

Biologists Henk-Jan Hoving (GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel) and Steve Haddock (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) caught some rare footage of the popularly called "seven-armed" ...

I’ll see your octopus and raise you one seahorse. Turns out, an octopus isn’t terribly rare in these waters, though it’s quite odd to find one deep inshore — as famously happened last week in Mosquito ...

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