It may not be a flying elephant, but the Grimpoteuthis octopus, or the dumbo octopus, is about as close as you're going to get. Not much is known about these creatures, mostly because they're hardly ever seen. One thing we do know is it gets its name because of its lateral fins that look just ...

A group of friends was out testing their GoPro on a kayaking trip when they caught some footage they never expected. While Taiyo Masuda was recording footage at Kaikoura on New Zealand's South Island, a seal lept from the water and flung an octopus right at his friend Kyle Mulinder. The ...

Sharks don't always come out on top and that's a lesson this one learned the hard way. Apparently, this octopus wanted to try shark for dinner instead of ending up on the menu itself. Too bad for the shark, that meant its day was about to get a lot worse. As soon as it swims near the octopus, ...

Although this fight between a seal and an octopus lasted for about 20 minutes, it's clear it was a one-sided encounter. Conner Stapley captured footage of a seal manhandling an octopus while on a kayaking tour in Kaikoura, in New Zealand’s South Island, while leading a group of three kayakers. ...

If you ever wondered whether a crab or an octopus would win in a fight and you picked the crab, you'd just better be glad you didn't put money down on it. Looking at the tow, you'd think the crabs claws and protective shell might give it the advantage over a smaller octopus, but this cephalopod ...

It looks like this crab enlisted the help of an army of other crabs to get revenge on any octopus it crosses paths with. These spider crabs don't just kill an octopus, they rip it apart in a display of sheer brutality. Next time we see a group of spider crabs we'll know to slowly back away before ...

You never know what's going to happen in nature. Even when you think you do, a surprise can be lurking right around the corner. This diver was in the middle of filming an epic fight between a red octopus and a swimmer crab during a late night dive. After nearly a minute of fighting, it looked ...

Just when it looks like this octopus is stranded on a boat and has no hope of returning to the sea, it finds a way out that's truly mind boggling. Thanks to it not having any skeletal system at all, this octopus is able to find it's freedom through a hole that's so tiny, a Hot Wheels car would have ...

Researchers off the California coast made a discovery last week that looks like it belongs in a toy store more than on the ocean floor. The bizarre looking 'google-eyed' squid isn't you typical cephalopod. This thing could beat Chuck Norris in a stare-down without breaking a sweat. It's ...

It's not everyday you catch an octopus from a kayak. Video description from rawkfish: Bryce hooked into a octopus which he originally thought was a snag. I was able to get some pretty sweet underwater shots while it was next to his kayak. The octopus was kept and enjoyed. It swallowed a pretty ...

Apparently the rodeo isn't exclusive to dry land, cowboys, bulls and horses. If you have the will to tame a wild beast, you can make the rodeo come to you just like this octopus did when it took a moray eel for a test-drive.

Seaside strollers were lucky to capture a struggle between a harbour seal and a giant Pacific octopus on camera as they stumbled upon the fight. Things got nasty as the fight progressed off Ogden Point in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - looking like the hard-fought battle could have gone ...

Tim Carpenter of the Seattle Aquarium told Crosscut.com that the annual mating event was canceled due to his staff not being able to find a large enough female octopus for the 70-pound male, named Kong. Every February for the past decade people were allowed to watch the octopus mating ...

https://youtu.be/i9pJ-JHYayc 10. RED-LIPPED BATFISH: Found around the Galapagos Islands, this unusual fish is not very good at swimming... ...it instead uses its unique fins to walk the ocean floor. And it has an ingenious spine-like projection on its back to lure prey, and uses a battering-ram ...