A video taken during a dive in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia, shows an aggressive coconut octopus walking across the ocean floor with the bivalve shell it uses for protection and lurching at the person ...

Scientists are studying how the argonaut octopus evolved the ability to produce a floating shell-like structure to care for its offspring. By Sofia Quaglia Argonauta Argo is not a typical octopus.

One hurricane and several feet of storm surge later, the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and Aquarium in Sanibel has been focused on cleaning up and reopening. But museum staff have also been ...

Argonauta Argo is an octopus but not quite the typical one. Even the sound of its name suggests that it is more intriguing than you would expect. The female species can create a protective shell for ...

Octopuses in the genus Argonauta have shells on their body It is only the females that carry a shell The shell also plays the role of an egg case A tiny octopus with a shell of its own has puzzled ...

Octopuses are masters of camouflage that can change their shape, colour and texture to perfectly blend into their environment. But the soft bodies that make them such excellent con artists also make ...

A post shared by a woman involving an octopus and a shell has created a stir online. In a descriptive Instagram post, she shared how she came across the creature hiding inside the shell during her ...

Note to readers: The News-Press and Naples Daily News are presenting a series of stories, photos and videos this week about shells and shelling in Southwest Florida − from shell art to shelling ...