Deep sea octopus discovery in Trinidad and Tobago: scientists aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's RV Falkor (too) retrieved ...

On November 6, 2025, researchers piloting a remotely operated vehicle through the dark waters of Monterey Bay captured ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. The new species has been named Opisthoteuthis ...

It could be easy to miss a blob the size of a golf ball. But its blue hue—the rarest color in nature—stood out against the sand, grabbing researchers’ attention. It wasn’t a blob but an adorable blue ...

The elusive seven-armed blob octopus -- yes, that's a real creature -- has been caught on camera for just the fourth time in 40 years. Researchers were not looking for the octopus, but it wandered ...

More than 400 sponge samples were collected during the survey, and some of the species observed could be new to science.

Last month a team of scientists visited an ethereal nursery on the seafloor off Costa Rica, where they watched in awe as a new generation of deep-sea octopuses gently emerged from a quivering cluster ...

‘He’s tiny! It’s blue!’ one excited scientist was recorded as saying when she first caught sight of the creature – Copyright AFP Zain JAAFAR On the ocean ...

An octopus hatchling emerges from a group of eggs at a new octopus nursery, first discovered by the same team in June, at Tengosed Seamount, off Costa Rica. automation Scientists have discovered at ...

A submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a deep-sea creature with “long,” sucker-covered arms and discovered a new species, a study said. Screenshot from video shared via Tang, Zheng and Zhang (2025) ...