(CNN) — The miracle of life is a wondrous thing and this video of a baby octopus being born is nothing short of awe-inspiring. The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center welcomed the eight-armed ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Newly released video shows the first moments of life for one of the ocean's most mysterious creatures. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod say that ...

Last night, a strange video appeared on Twitter: it looks like some sort of deep sea bloom — but then a tiny octopus squirts out and zooms away, changing colors from white to purple. What exactly are ...

The order Octopoda really is endlessly entertaining. Members create armor out of shells, use the “sneaky shoulder tap” technique to attack prey, and commit mass akrasia for no apparent reason. Now, in ...

There’s no need to panic, this isn’t the invasion of alien life-forms. It’s the birth of a baby octopus. A 10-second video of a baby Caribbean Reef octopus (Octopus briareus) being hatched has been ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) -- If you've never seen a video of a baby octopus hatching, prepare yourself...it's kind of cute. The Virginia Aquarium posted a video on Twitter of a Caribbean Two-Spot ...

A distinctively alien-looking nursery was located atop a sunken mountain off Central America, and scientists happened on it just in time to witness the tentacles of an unfamiliar species emerging from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most octopuses lead solitary lives. So scientists were startled to find thousands of octopus huddled together, protecting their eggs at the bottom of the ocean off the central ...

A video of a baby dumbo octopus emerges. Scientists say the rare creature provides insight into the early lifecycle of cirrate mollusks. The video showing the hatching of a baby dumbo octopus ...

Dumbo octopuses live at a depth of thousands of meters in the oceans of this world, in near-freezing water and in absolute darkness. A rare spectacle now provides further insight into this ...

Thousands of octopus mothers lay and tend their eggs at a deep-sea site with warm hydrothermal vents because it dramatically reduces hatching times, from more than 14 years to under two years. “They ...

In 2018, researchers from NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Nautilus Live observed thousands of octopus nesting on the deep seafloor off the Central California coast. The discovery of ...