Visitors will step into a much changed world Thursday at La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium, where a large and lively new exhibit called Living Seas will open and offer a fresh look at life in the Pacific, ...

Floors, ceilings, walls, lighting fixtures and habitats for the long-standing Hall of Fishes exhibit at La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium have been stripped and removed. Now the aquarium is ready to build the ...

Exploring the deep ocean comes with the chance to encounter all kinds of weird and wonderful species. You could come face to ...

POULSBO — Four years after the last Giant Pacific Octopus at the SEA Discovery Center was released back to the sea, the marine science center in Poulsbo has plans to bring one back. SEA will work with ...

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography successfully hatched over 3,000 Red Octopus hatchlings, a species native to the California coast, marking a major achievement for the ...

Cephalopods, like humans, have camera-like eyes that focus light with a lens. The two-spot octopus gets its name from the ocelli, or iridescent blue spots, which are false eyes to startle predators ...

STORY: Home to the nation’s largest octopus habitat, Greece’s Thracian Sea is also blanketed by illegal plastic octopus traps. The practice threatens octopus populations, fuels marine pollution, and ...

Octopuses are among the most fascinating and intelligent creatures of the ocean. Known for their incredible problem-solving skills, shape-shifting abilities, and remarkable intelligence, these ...

Ghost, a giant octopus at the Aquarium of the Pacific, entered the final stage of her life cycle in early September The aquarium’s vice president of animal care, Nate Jaros, tells PEOPLE exclusively ...

The San Antonio Aquarium has responded after a 6-year-old boy was left covered in bruises from an encounter with a giant Pacific octopus The San Antonio Aquarium said "The octopus displayed typical, ...