An octopus cyanea hunting with a blue goatfish, while a blacktip grouper lies in wait. The snout of a cornetfish is also visible on the top of the picture. Credit: Eduardo Sampaio and Simon Gingins.

The team followed the octopuses for 13 hunts, during which they observed groups of between two and 10 fish working with each octopus. These hunting groups typically included several species of ...

A group of researchers recently made a surprising discovery while studying videos they captured of octopuses hunting off the coast of Israel. The 120 hours of footage they shot revealed that the ...

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A team of scientists in the Red Sea captured footage of a big blue octopus hunting with other fish species. Eduardo Sampaio via Campus.Kn. In the waters of the Red Sea, fish and octopuses are ...

When hunting go smoothly, both the fish and the octopus benefit—a phenomenon in nature known as mutualism. The footage also shows that octopuses don’t take kindly to freeloaders.

The octopus’s hunting was more efficient when it was traveling with fish partners: It checked out fewer crevices, but spent more time at each one, suggesting it was finding prey to slurp up.

An day octopus hunting with a blacktip grouper and a gold-saddle goatfish. While octopuses usually keep to themselves, some will recruit groups of fish to hunt with.

Video from a recent study shows multiple examples of octopuses using their tentacles to punch fish, but it's not part of a sanctioned aquatic boxing match. Instead, researchers said the animals do ...

When a day octopus is hunting alone, it will do lots of brief web-overs in quick succession. When with fish, it does fewer web-overs, but they tend to last longer, sometimes for more than a minute.

Octopus seen 'punching' fish to corral them while hunting for food. Watch as an octopus appears to use one of its tentacles to hit fish swimming nearby.