A large creature is being assembled behind the scenes at the Alaska State Library, Archives and Museum, and by spring it will be alive. In the museum’s carpentry shop, 14-foot-long arms frozen in both ...

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 behavior, ...

Thousands of giant Pacific octopus eggs, laid more than a year ago, began hatching this spring at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, facing a future with the odds overwhelmingly stacked against life ...