Most animals ... red light doesn't filter down to the lower ocean zones, though, their reddish coloring works to their advantage, making them difficult to see. The diet of the dumbo octopus ...

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around ... They feed on snails, worms, and other creatures they hoover up from the ocean floor. They are “cirrate” octopuses, a group of deep ...

An octopus scoots along the reef during one of Anne Rillero’s Sunday swims off the Makena coast. A friend, Don Bloom, dove down to snap a photo. DON BLOOM photo At the Maui Ocean Center, head ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world ... males and females—called sexual size dimorphism—in the animal kingdom. Why the dramatic disparity? It’s not fully known, but ...