The southern sand octopus has taken hide-and-seek to a whole new level. It shoots jets of water into the seafloor creating quicksand that allows it to vanish. A skilled architect, the octopus can ...

this octopus would often bury itself in the sand. Dultra soon learned from fishers like de Oliveira that the local name for the species means “sand octopus”, whereas another species found in ...

A sand octopus has been filmed wriggling its tentacles to create a burrow into the ocean floor and disappearing as a disguise technique to hide from its predators. Marine biologist Jules Casey ...

A team of researchers from Spain and Australia studying the venom of the Australian southern sand octopus has identified a compound that may significantly slow cancer growth and help fight drug ...

An Australian diver captured the moment that an octopus disappeared beneath sand to hide from predators near Rye Pier, Victoria. Jules Casey, who frequently posts underwater footage to her ...

After a moment, the octopus climbs out of the shell. Its body is the size of your thumb, its arms perhaps three times that. As it moves onto the sand, it turns a matching shade of dark gray.

Watch debris from the sea bottom fly, as octopuses hurl sand and other projectiles at ... "In some cases the projected material hits another octopus, or another object (a fish or a camera ...

The octopus, thought to be a female, had been kept alive by the family’s 10-year-old daughter, who used her sand bucket to keep the cephalopod wet. “She was taking water with her little sand ...