Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa Rica, officials from the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Tuesday. An international team of scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's R ...

Giant octopus fossil: A new study published in Science reveals that giant octopus-like creatures up to 19 metres long lived as apex predators in the ancient oceans 100 million years ago. Fossilised beaks show they crushed bones and rivalled mosasaurs.

The discovery, based on novel techniques to analyse fossilised beaks, details how colossal octopuses prowled the depths during the age of dinosaurs.

A submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a deep-sea creature with “long,” sucker-covered arms and discovered a new species, a study said. Screenshot from video shared via Tang, Zheng and Zhang (2025) From a research vessel in the Pacific Ocean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The elusive seven-armed blob octopus -- yes, that's a real creature -- has been caught on camera for just the fourth time in 40 years. Researchers were not looking for the octopus, but ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of enormous, intelligent, octopus-like predators that dominated Earth's ancient oceans. These creatures, some up to 19 meters long, possessed bone-crushing beaks and rivalled top predators like mosasaurs.