TACOMA —The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma has a new resident: a 32-pound female giant Pacific octopus. For the next week, the Pacific Seas Aquarium is holding a poll asking people to vote on ...

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Let’s shift the local media’s attention away from eminent loser Zack Reed for a moment and talk about someone something that’s absolutely not a washed-up drunk: the Akron Zoo’s new octopus! Not only ...

Tacoma — The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma has a new resident: a 32-pound female giant Pacific octopus. For the next few days, the Pacific Seas Aquarium is holding a poll asking people to ...

Although giant Pacific octopuses are masters of disguise, the new octopus at the National Zoo revealed its true identity Saturday when a keeper helped it select its name: Pandora. The octopus had a ...

It's not all that unusual to see octopus on a restaurant menu. But an octopus as a family pet? Cameron Clifford of Edmond, Okla. says his 9-year-old son Cal is a huge fan of the eight-legged creatures ...

Ghost always knew when it was showtime. Stretching her eight arms across the tank, the octopus would glide midwater almost as if she were dancing, leaving admirers on the other side of the glass ...

Almost a half-mile below Monterey Bay's surface, California scientists recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a ...