A man in Australia recently had a rare encounter with one of the country's most fascinating creatures: the lyrebird.

Thomas Mulligan examines the potent neurotoxins of the blue-ringed octopus to reveal how such a small creature can pose a ...

Nearly 1,800 meters beneath the surface of the Pacific, a remotely operated submersible was creeping along the slope of a Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in ...

A recently published study in the journal Zootaxa identified a new species of tiny octopus, which they named Microeledone galapagensis. The specimen was collected in 2015 when deep-sea researchers ...

While on a deep-sea expedition in the Galapagos in 2015, scientists found a golf-ball sized, short-armed blue octopus. In a recent study, they confirmed that it’s new to science. The newly described ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. orth Atlantic Stepping Stones Expedition 2005. The Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Hercules searches for deep sea fauna.© NOAA ...

The new species was named Microeledone galapagensis in honor of the location where it was collected. Charles Darwin Foundation Deep below the waters off the Galápagos Islands resides a tiny blue ...

Scientists recently uncovered fossilized jawbones of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti – a massive, kraken-like octopus that roamed Earth about 72 million years ago.According to a recent study published in the ...