Octopuses are masters of camouflage and disguise. An alarmed octopus can vanish even while you watch, flawlessly transforming into what looks like a piece of coral-encrusted rock, or another species ...

The moment an octopus camouflaged itself against a coral reef to become invisible has been revealed in an amazing video. The footage shows what appears to be just a lifeless reef area. But as the ...

With their eight arms and giant egg-shaped head, octopuses are one of the most alien-looking creatures on the planet. Yet scientists have an extremely difficult time studying them in the wild because ...

Katherine Hignett is a reporter based in London. She currently covers current affairs, health and science. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2017, she edited a medicine industry newspaper and its ...

An curved arrow pointing right. With their eight arms and giant egg-shaped head, octopuses are one of the most alien-looking creatures on the planet. We read Katherine Courage's book "Octopus!" and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CANADA (CNN) — A team of salmon farmers are ...

When a scuba diver spotted this octopus he couldn't resist catching the changing colours of its body on camera. Trying to protect itself from any potential predators, the sea creature looks as if it ...

I love octopi: they're beautiful, they're smart, and they're just a little bit weird. Did you know that a six hundred pound octopus can compress itself down to the width of a quarter to fit in, or ...