California is now the second state — after Washington — to prohibit octopus farming. Similar legislation has also been introduced in the U.S. Senate and in Hawaii. “We know that what happens ...

Some three decades later Ross and Roy Caldwell of the University of California, Berkeley, have bred and studied that elusive cephalopod, the larger Pacific striped octopus (LPSO). They’ve ...

A mystery surrounds the planting of an octopus and a fish on the railings of a town square. A member of the Reading ...

The giant Pacific octopus grows bigger and lives longer ... They range throughout the temperate waters of the Pacific, from southern California to Alaska, west to the Aleutian Islands and Japan.

An octopus has no shell, just a soft body and a sharp mind. It's a master of shape-shifting, adapting to its ever-changing environment with grace and resilience. It faces daily challenges with ...