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A rare octopus the size of a golf ball just surfaced in a live camera feed 6,000 feet below the Galápagos — a brand-new species no one had laid eyes on until now

Nearly 6,000 feet beneath the Galápagos Islands, in water so deep that no trace of sunlight reaches the seafloor, a remotely operated vehicle’s camera caught something unexpected: a tiny, vivid blue octopus drifting through the darkness,

This tiny blue octopus from the Galápagos could curl up in your hand and shows how much deep ocean remains unexplored

The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth—things like marine iguanas and giant tortoises. In a new paper in the journal Zootaxa,

Glass octopus captured in rare footage by underwater robot

This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.
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A Pacific reef octopus was just filmed slipping a rock into a fish’s mouth as the two hunted together — the cleverest cross-species teamwork ever caught

Off the coast of Eilat, Israel, a Pacific day octopus did something no scientist had seen before. Mid-hunt, with a small group of fish swimming alongside it over a coral reef, the octopus picked up a rock and placed it directly into the mouth of a partner fish.
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This octopus dies right after becoming a mother... starving while protecting its eggs

Octopuses possess one of the strangest nervous systems in the animal kingdom, with roughly 500 million neurons spread throughout their bodies and arms. Each arm can process information and react semi-independently,