Called the frilled giant Pacific octopus, the mysterious creature has a bumpy ridge across its body, weird fleshy "eyelashes" and two white spots on its head. The more common giant Pacific octopus—or ...

David Scheel, an octopus researcher and professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University, met his first octopus in 1995 in a Cordova aquarium. Although he had a background in animal behavior, ...

The Alaska SeaLife Center’s family of octopuses is growing. A giant Pacific octopus, named Gilligan, laid thousands of eggs about a year ago. Less than a hundred hatched this month. Aquarium curator ...

A large creature is being assembled behind the scenes at the Alaska State Library, Archives and Museum, and by spring it will be alive. In the museum’s carpentry shop, 14-foot-long arms frozen in both ...

You wouldn’t expect humans to have missed a whole species of giant octopus – but researchers recently revealed that’s exactly what we did. It turns out that the giant Pacific octopus Per Earther – the ...

KENAI, Alaska – Alaska’s SeaLife Center is getting its third shot at raising thousands of octopus hatchlings, hoping at least one of the translucent mollusks will grow into its 50-pound, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - J-1 was doing more than whispering sweet nothings to Aurora as the two clutched each other in a deep embrace in a secluded corner last month. It turns out that J-1 had all the ...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's SeaLife Center is getting its third shot at raising thousands of octopus hatchlings, hoping at least one of the translucent mollusks will grow into its 50-pound ...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Alaska”s SeaLife Center is getting its third shot at raising thousands of octopus hatchlings, hoping at least one of the translucent mollusks will grow into its 50-pound ...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s SeaLife Center is getting its third shot at raising thousands of octopus hatchlings, hoping at least one of the translucent mollusks will grow into its 50-pound ...