Occasionally, they can be found in shallow tide pools. Giant Pacific octopuses, or GPOs, as they are known at Mote, are reddish-pink with a vein-like pattern covering their bodies. They have eight ...

The northern giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) is the largest, longest-lived octopus species. Although its average length and mass are 5 metres and 20 to 50 kilograms respectively, the ...

About 95% of the ocean has yet to be explored, but in what has been explored, there are some truly weird deep-sea creatures ...

A giant Pacific octopus featured in the "Spineless" exhibit at the New York Aquarium, takes a rest on the first day of reopening, Aug. 24, 2020, in New York. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Bebeto Matthews ...

Even with eight legs it was difficult to hang on during this week’s bomb cyclone in British Columbia, with a remote camera capturing an octopus battling currents whipped up by the hurricane ...

The giant Pacific octopus was spotted by an Ocean Networks Canada video camera on the sea floor off Vancouver Island’s west coast, clinging to rocks and coral buffeted by the currents early ...

The biggest giant Pacific octopus ever recorded reached a weight of 600 pounds. That’s nearly four times the weight of the average person. This huge octopus was also 30ft across – longer than a London ...

Video shared by Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria shows a giant Pacific octopus as it gets knocked around by a rapidly changing underwater current on the morning of Nov. 20 during a ...