The chance rescue of a deep-sea octopus from a line trap gave researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego the opportunity to make unprecedented observations. This particular ...

Though it’s common on the West Coast, little has been known about the reproductive cycle of the deep-sea North Pacific bigeye octopus — until now. After making a chance rescue of a female bigeye last ...

Two miles under the ocean’s surface, in one final act, a lavendar-colored pearl octopus about the size of a grapefruit selects a nesting site. After gluing about 60 sausage-shaped eggs to that perfect ...