For decades, breeding octopuses in captivity has proven a fish farming challenge too far, with numerous failed attempts to reproduce cephalopods outside their natural habitat. When Spanish company ...

Plans are well underway for the first commercial octopus farm, which has stoked concern among animal-welfare campaigners that keeping the intelligent creatures in such an environment could lead to ...

Some animals reproduce only once before dying. This life strategy, called semelparity, sees organisms channel all energy into reproduction. Mechanisms include stress hormone overload, sexual ...