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Articles by Brad Matthews

An octopus swims at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany on Friday, Nov. 25, 2005. In research published Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in the journal Nature Communications, scientists have described the oldest known fossil ancestor of octopuses — an approximately 330 million-year-old specimen found in Montana. (AP Photo/Bernd Kammerer, File)

Hawaii regulators shut down octopus commercial breeding operation

Hawaiian state regulators ordered the Kanaloa Octopus Farm in the state's Hawai`i Ocean Science and Technology Park research campus to stop operation, citing concerns the site was possessing specimens of the day octopus species without a permit.

February 16, 2023