A video shared to TikTok on Nov. 9, 2024, claimed to show a "giant sea white octopus caught by fishermen" and included a geolocation tag of the "United States." In the video, multiple people were ...

The giant Pacific octopus grows bigger and lives longer than any other octopus species. The size record is held by a specimen that was 30 feet across and weighed more than 600 pounds. Averages are ...

To capture images, the research team used a special deep-sea camera, designed by chief scientist Alan Jamieson, PhD. Dumbo octopus species have been off the California and Oregon coasts ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Sightings of dumbo octopuses are rare, so researchers were enthralled when one appeared on their submersible's camera on a deep-sea dive near Hawaii. More from News ...

Snopes has previously investigated similar claims about images allegedly showing bizarrely large animals, including a giant centipede purportedly found in Australia and an eerily large octopus ...

The octopuses also have a single line of about 65-68 suckers along each arm. These are flanked by hair-like projections called cirri. This places them in the deep-sea cirrate octopus group, which is ...

Two miles beneath the ocean surface, at the base of a deep-sea seamount they uncovered the largest known gathering of octopus in the world – 20,000 pearl octopus breeding in warm hydrothermal ...

Like a deep-sea modern dancer ... expedition goals is to study an octopus nursery first discovered in 2013 and more recently revisited in June 2023. The giant phantom jelly was a bonus creature ...