Octopuses can open jars, use tools, solve puzzles and even recognize individual human faces staring back at them through aquarium glass. Should they serve as menu items, too? Whether stuffed into ...

Flavorful, fascinating and a little weird, this sea creature gets gourmet treatment at a new Mass Ave restaurant.

Octopuses are capable of sophisticated tasks, from solving puzzles to decorating their dens to remembering people's faces. So when a company in Spain announced that it wanted to commercially farm ...

Researchers have suggested that, as particularly intelligent and playful creatures, octopuses are unsuited to a life in captivity and mass-production. Animal rights activists argue that farming ...

A dying octopus in a Southern California aquarium is receiving an outflowing of love and well wishes as she spends her final ...