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Researchers encountered a new species of octopus while scanning the ocean floor off the Galapagos Islands – and it may be ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a deep blue creature in the deep blue sea. Scientists were delighted after discovering a new species of tiny, blue ...

The newly described creature was discovered nearly 6,000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface A tiny bright-blue octopus discovered near the Galápagos Islands has been confirmed as a brand-new species ...

A golf-ball-sized blue octopus collected nearly a mile beneath the Pacific Ocean in 2015 has been formally described as a new species — and in doing so, it has forced scientists to rewrite the ...