These socktopuses throw a mean — and random — octopunch. A new paper published Friday in the journal Ecology has found that octopuses punch fish — sometimes to ensure collaborative hunting, and ...

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Upsetting but strangely satisfying new research documents octopuses punching fish during collaborative feeding sessions. The octopuses primarily do it for practical reasons, but sometimes these ...

A new study found that some members of an octopus species hunt cooperatively in groups with fish. Video shows octopuses punching their companion fish to keep them on task and contributing to the hunt.

Octopuses are some of the smartest invertebrates in the animal kingdom, with an exceptional ability to solve problems, use tools, and recognize their surroundings and individual people. Over the years ...

Scientists have recently documented a behavior that looks almost comedic at first glance: an octopus suddenly reaching out and striking a nearby fish. Divers have filmed these moments in detail, and ...

What have eight legs, hunt among a group of fish and can throw a mean sucker punch? According to research published in Ecologylast week, the answer would be octopuses (yes, octopuses, not octopi—we ...

Octopuses are known for being cryptic, solitary creatures. And, perhaps this might explain a behavior that scientists recently documented in a new study: that octopuses punch fish. And sometimes, it ...

Turns out, octopuses might be the underwater predator no one suspected. New research is now suggesting that the 8-legged sea animals punch fish, and sometimes, they do it purely out of spite.