A video taken during a dive in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia, shows an aggressive coconut octopus walking across the ocean floor with the bivalve shell it uses for protection and lurching at the person ...

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Biologists studying the habits of veined octopuses in the waters of ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian scientists have discovery an octopus species that carries around coconut shells to hide in when threatened, behavior the researchers said was the first example of ...

This octopus has devised an ingenious way to create a moveable shelter by assembling two halves of a coconut shell. - [Narrator] Our understanding of octopus intelligence took another leap forward, ...

A study finds that the gloomy octopus — its real name — is in the small club of animals that toss things at other members of their own species. By Darren Incorvaia It turns out that the urge to hurl ...