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Nearly 1,800 meters beneath the surface of the Pacific, a remotely operated submersible was creeping along the slope of a Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in ...

While on a deep-sea expedition in the Galapagos in 2015, scientists found a golf-ball sized, short-armed blue octopus. In a recent study, they confirmed that it’s new to science. The newly described ...

This video shows a close-up view of a blue-ringed octopus resting among coral and rocky surfaces in the coastal waters of Australia. The octopus displays distinctive blue circular markings across its ...

CHICAGO — A deep-sea robot gliding over the ocean floor near the Galápagos Islands captured footage of something researchers had never seen before: a tiny, vivid blue octopus no bigger than a golf ...

The octopus was first spotted in 2015 during an expedition aboard the E/V Nautilus, conducted in partnership with the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápagos National Park Directorate. A remotely ...