The purple octopus that hung outside the Greek Cusina restaurant in downtown Portland became a city landmark. Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian (Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian) This story has been updated ...

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In 2013, a team of geochemists off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica sent underwater vehicles to explore the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of seafloor 150 miles from land. They hoped to gather samples ...

Man, this Costa’s hummingbird legitimately looks like it has a shiny purple baby octopus attached to its face like the facehugger in Alien. I mean, look at how wacky it looks, it almost seems as if ...

WALLA WALLA -- A court hearing has been set in the lawsuit filed by a downtown toy store owner who is trying to save his giant, purple octopus mural on constitutional grounds. The hearing before Walla ...

Last night, a strange video appeared on Twitter: it looks like some sort of deep sea bloom — but then a tiny octopus squirts out and zooms away, changing colors from white to purple. What exactly are ...

WALLA WALLA — A Walla Walla County Superior Court judge is deciding whether a purple octopus mural over a downtown Walla Walla toy store is art or a commercial sign. The Union-Bulletin reports Judge ...

Time ran out for the giant purple octopus mural Thursday morning in Walla Walla, Wash. By 7 a.m. PT, the giant sea creature that once blanketed the storefront of Inland Octopus, a toy shop on the town ...

What’s news in the Northwest today: WALLA WALLA, Wash. — A giant purple octopus is on the public comment agenda for today’s city council meeting in Walla Walla. It’s a mural that was painted over the ...

Time ran out for the giant purple octopus mural Thursday morning in Walla Walla, Wash. By 7 a.m. PT, the giant sea creature that once blanketed the storefront of Inland Octopus, a toy shop on the town ...

— The city of Walla Walla sent a paint crew at dawn Thursday to paint over a purple octopus mural it said was an illegal sign for a toy store. After more than two years of court battles the octopus ...