SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography has announced a remarkable first: the successful hatching of more than 3,000 Red Octopus hatchlings — a species native to ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Bayside Aquarium at SeaWorld San Diego reopens this week with a new design and a wide variety of marine creatures. After a long-awaited renovation project, Bayside Aquarium ...

A lab at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography figures out a ‘mafia-inspired’ way to produce large amounts of a natural pigment some creatures use to camouflage themselves ...

Researchers at UC San Diego have figured out how to get bacteria to produce xanthommatin, the pigment that lets octopuses and squids camouflage. By linking the pigment’s production to bacterial ...

A Texas mom is concerned after she says an octopus at the San Antonio Aquarium left bruises on her 6-year-old son’s arm. According to the mother, Britney Taryn, her son has been visiting the aquarium ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday signed a bill into law to ban the farming of octopuses and farmed octopus sales. Under AB 3162, also known as the California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act, authored ...

UC San Diego-led team discovers new method for producing large amounts of color-changing, nature-inspired pigment in the lab Scientists at UC San Diego have moved one step closer to unlocking a ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses Act (A.B. 3162), which was co-sponsored by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Social Compassion in Legislation, into law to prohibit ...

A six-year-old boy was hurt when an octopus grabbed on to his arm and wouldn't let go after the boy reached into a touch tank at the San Antonio Aquarium, his mother said. Britney Taryn, the boy's mom ...