In a delightful encounter along a beach in Wales, marine enthusiasts were treated to a rare sighting of a curled octopus. The captivating footage, captured by Ciara Taylor, a project assistant for the ...

A video of an octopus changing colors while it sleeps is raising a lot of questions about the mysterious sea creatures. The footage aired in the new PBS documentary titled "Octopus: Making Contact." ...

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That's how Brent Meister, a marine biologist and aquarist at the Marine Discovery Center in New Smyrna Beach, described a local man's encounter with a fully grown octopus in Mosquito Lagoon last week.