Blanket Octopus female diving. Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world's oddest couples, with the female weighing 40,000 times more than the male.© Sam Robertshaw/Shutterstock.com This ...

The blanket octopus uses venomous man o’ war tentacles as weapons, doubling its reach and surviving in the open ocean.

We continue our exploration of the many mysterious octopuses that live far from shore--and the eyes of humans. Today we meet the blanket octopus (Tremoctopus), a genus with four species that, until ...

Karachi, 12 December: In a rare occurrence, WWF-Pakistan trained fishermen recorded three specimens of blanket octopus from different spots along the Sindh and Balochistan coast this week. A 0.8-metre ...

Through sexual selection, the characteristics of a larger female and smaller male have evolved so dramatically that the male blanket octopuses are considered to be dwarf animals.© Sam ...

This remarkable sea creature resembles the softest, rainbow-colored blanket gently floating through the deep ocean. A video from USA Today shows some rare footage obtained by a diver of two of these ...