When it comes to animals, this year’s winners have also come up trumps, with a range of images featuring everything from a ...

A sprawling new documentary series, The Americas takes viewers to the southern tip of Chile, the frozen north of Alaska and ...

A devoted mother pearl octopus brooding her eggs – the baby octopus’s eyes and tentacles are visible inside the egg casings – showing they are half way through their development. In 2018 ...

When it’s time, the octopus lays upwards of 100,000 eggs, then retrieves the hectocotylus and spreads the sperm out over the egg bundle. Another unusual aspect of the blanket octopus ...

This species of octopus is also known as the paper nautilus (the shell it builds to hold its eggs is made of paper-thin calcium carbonate). The Chinese name for the species translates to “white ...

University of Oregon researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart ...

This Easter egg is particularly effective because it builds anticipation for Doctor Octopus’s eventual emergence as a direct threat. Rather than immediately introducing him with his iconic ...