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 ...

Alaska Pacific University professor of marine biology David Scheel examines an octopus, cyanea, near Mo'orea, French Polynesia. (Sy Montgomery) Octopuses are mysterious sea creatures to many ...

Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museums Operation Manager Lisa Golisek-Nankerv, right, helps Museum Exhibit Specialist Aaron Elmore move one of the eight legs to a giant octopus he is ...

On the third floor of a building at Alaska Pacific University, two octopuses -- Dean and Khaleesi -- are revealing a trove of information about a species that doesn't get studied much.

While other octopus books study the animal's behavior in aquaria or tropical waters worldwide, Dr. David Scheel, a professor of Marine Biology at Alaska Pacific University, takes a unique approach ...

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 ...

Alaska Pacific University undergraduate student Nathan Hollenbeck discovered a new giant octopus species: the frilled giant Pacific octopus.

The OCTOPUS Act would ban farming the animal, and imports of farmed meat. It was introduced by a senator whose office says he learned about the plan through a story on NPR.

The research is part of Alaska Pacific University's Alaska Octopus Project. The more common giant Pacific octopus—or Enteroctopus dofleini —is the largest known octopus in the world.

You might assume that an octopus expert would answer firmly in the negative, but this was not the case with marine biologist Dr. David Scheel. The Alaska Pacific University professor has been ...

The Americas explores the life and death of the giant Pacific octopus If you know where and how to look, you can find the giant Pacific octopus swimming the shallow waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museums Operation Manager Lisa Golisek-Nankerv, right, helps Museum Exhibit Specialist Aaron Elmore move one of the eight legs to a giant octopus he is ...