A real-life "Sharktopus" situation unfolded in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island in New Zealand, and scientists couldn't ...

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 ...

"Envenomating the females renders them immobile, enabling the males to mate successfully," the researchers explained in their paper. The venom used by the blue-lined octopus is "tetrodotoxin"—perhaps ...