Argonaut octopuses are rarely seen by humans, as they live in the open ocean away from shores. Females have a thin shell that carries their eggs, giving them the nickname ‘paper nautilus.’ Males have ...

A recent study by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has unveiled new data on the behaviour of argonauts, an enigmatic group of pelagic octopuses that inhabit the ocean’s surface layers. The ...

Some male octopuses perform one of the most extreme survival strategies in the animal kingdom, they detach their own arm ...

Octopuses are an extremely diverse group of sea life. With roughly 300 species in total, there are many octopus species that are unfamiliar to most people. One example is the argonaut, a type of ...