Videos filmed by divers show that choking, blinding and sacrificing limbs are all in the cephalopods’ repertoire. By Joshua Rapp Learn The conger eel was the favorite, weighing at least three times ...

Catherine Ferris is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting for the U.S. Trends Team. She has covered viral trends and posts extensively. Catherine joined Newsweek in 2021 and ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — As the eel hung from the end of the hook, wrapping its body protectively around the sand perch that got it into this mess, Captain Jason Shingler of Adrenaline H20 charters snapped ...

Exploring the deep ocean comes with the chance to encounter all kinds of weird and wonderful species. You could come face to ...

When you think of the aquatic animals that typify the Pacific Northwest, you think of orcas, salmon, and harbor seals. They're our unofficial mascots. And rightfully so! Orcas project mystical ...

After snapping a few photos of a wolf eel, I start to move on. As I do an octopus arm comes out of the kelp and reaches around. I get the attention of my dive buddy. We're diving in the San Juan ...

Wrapping our tentacles of our minds around the surreal notion that we occupy the same planet as cephalopods, those sucker-laden, ink-blasting, oh-so-smart, super-soggy superstars of the not-so-deep?

In mid-February, BBC America aired an episode of Blue Planet II that British audiences have been raving about since November. The star of the show: a wily octopus that twice avoids predation by a ...

If you’re lucky enough to see a shallow-water octopus bedding down in a craggy nook off the coast of Okinawa Island — and you have the patience to wait about an hour after it falls asleep — you might ...