Octopuses are insanely talented: They’ve been observed building forts, playing games, and even walking on dry land. But one area where the cephalopods come up short is in the social department. At ...

Alaska Pacific University professor David Schell and a team of researchers recently found a colony of gloomy octopuses (also known as common Sydney octopuses) living together in Jervis Bay near ...

For almost eight years, the citizens of Octlantis have been making their home at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Australia. A team of researchers headed by marine biologist David Scheel found ...

For decades, scientists have assumed so-called gloomy octopuses (or octopus tetricus) were just a bunch of loners. But now there's evidence these marine creatures hang out in small octo-cities, ...

Octopuses—typically a solitary animal—built a small city using scavenged junk and discarded prey shells. Octopuses are typically solitary animals—they goes about their days hiding in a den and ...

For almost eight years, the citizens of Octlantis have been making their home at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Australia. A team of researchers headed by marine biologist David Scheel found ...

A new 'octopus city' is turning our understanding of how octopi co-exist with one another upside-down. While researchers have always considered these creatures to be somewhat asocial, the octopi in ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Octopus City Blues Assume the role of Kaf Kafkaryan, a cowardly middle-aged octopus blood junkie and tentacle trimmer, living in a city built around a giant ...

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Octopuses are typically solitary animals—they goes about their days hiding in a den and emerging at night to hunt. But new research suggests they may not be as solitary as we once thought. Off the ...