Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a tightly cropped photo of an octopus's golden eye, with a mottled purple and golden tentacle curving around it, in a narrow ...

Birch Aquarium has reached a milestone in octopus care. It has successfully helped raise and settle red octopuses. KPBS environment reporter Tammy Murga says this is giving researchers rare insight ...

Cameron Clifford had finally given in to his son’s pleas and bought him a pet octopus. After several weeks, he was getting the hang of caring for their new tentacled pet – then he discovered what ...

It's not all that unusual to see octopus on a restaurant menu. But an octopus as a family pet? Cameron Clifford of Edmond, Okla. says his 9-year-old son Cal is a huge fan of the eight-legged creatures ...

Octopuses can taste with their arms, and a new study reveals that specifically, they're tasting chemical cues from microbes that grow on the surface of objects like dead crabs and living octopus eggs.