A newly discovered little flapjack octopus species might be named after how cute scientists think it is. Researches at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute want to call the octopus ...

A researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium is deciding what to name a tiny octopus she has found and been unable to identify. "I thought that since this animal is so adorable, I should name it ...

From movies to comics to literature, the octopuses of this world tend to get a pretty bad rap—but the goggled-eyed flapjack octopus shows us a sweet, cartoonish side of the cephlapod species.

An underwater search in the Monterey Bay happened Thursday for the ocean's cutest octopus, but scientists came back to Moss Landing's harbor with empty tanks.The animals are a form of flapjack octopus ...

Stephanie Bush, a postdoctoral fellow at theMonterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, is researching the cute creature and the responsibility is on her for naming it. "I was thinking about what my ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...