When I first saw a picture of the blanket octopus I did a double take. I’d never heard of a blanket octopus before, which is surprising given the internet’s obsession with both large cephalopods and ...

Imagine if your spouse was 40,000 times heavier and a hundred times larger than you. This is reality for the male blanket octopus, which was recently spotted alive for the first time off Australia's ...

This female blanket octopus was between 35cm and 40cm in size. Photo: Christiaan Stopforth/Drone Fanatics SA Photographer and videographer Christiaan Stopforth had an extraordinary encounter with an ...

Karachi, 12 December: In a rare occurrence, WWF-Pakistan trained fishermen recorded three specimens of blanket octopus from different spots along the Sindh and Balochistan coast this week. A 0.8-metre ...

A marine biologist had a "once in a lifetime" encounter with the rare and stunning blanket octopus off the coast of Australia this month. Jacinta Shackleton, a videographer and photographer, has been ...

It’s generally agreed around these parts that octopodes are disturbingly awesome. The blanket octopus however kicks our cephalopod fascination into overdrive. How come? This creature looks like a ...

A Florida boater caught a red blanket octopus on camera. Blanket octopuses are occasionally spotted deep in the sea. Female blanket octopuses are the only ones to have the blanket features. A Florida ...

This remarkable sea creature resembles the softest, rainbow-colored blanket gently floating through the deep ocean. A video from USA Today shows some rare footage obtained by a diver of two of these ...