Brooding octopuses at a previously unexplored site in the Pacific Ocean, off the western coast of Costa Rica Schmidt Ocean Institute Researchers have discovered a rare, deep-sea octopus nursery off ...

The world's third-known octopus nursery was recently discovered offshore of Costa Rica. A team of 20 international scientists located the brooding site at a low-temperature hydrothermal vent. The team ...

Five years ago, a group of scientists stumbled upon 20,000 pearl octopuses brooding their eggs near the base of an extinct volcano, 80 miles off of the Monterey coast. They had discovered the largest ...

On a rocky outcrop almost 2 miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica, researchers have documented an active octopus nursery. It may be the third known example of a brooding site ...

A new species of octopus may have just been discovered off the coast of Costa Rica. It was found in a rare brooding site that marks only the third octopus nursery known to exist in the world. The ...

Some egg-laying mothers have to be pretty patient. That’s because it can take days and days before the eggs hatch. For chickens, a hen has to wait about 21 days for its eggs to hatch. But that’s ...

Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa Rica, officials from the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Tuesday. An ...