A vast aggregation of deep-sea octopuses has been documented nearly two miles beneath the surface off the coast of California, close to an underwater volcano. Observed and analyzed by the Monterey Bay ...

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 ...

Somewhere in the final days of a 28-day voyage, a research team lowered a remotely operated vehicle into waters off Trinidad and Tobago and retrieved something no one had ever pulled from the ocean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tiny blue deep-sea octopus discovered near Galapagos confirmed as new species A palm-sized blue octopus first spotted off the ...

‘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. Scientists have discovered at least four ...

Almost a half-mile below the surface of Monterey Bay, California, scientists recently recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus— only the fourth time the same research team has spotted the species ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Researchers collected detailed observations about the seldom-spotted sea critter during the rare encounter on Nov. 6 Bailey Richards is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

A palm-sized blue octopus first spotted off the Galapagos Islands in 2015 has been identified as a new deep-sea species, according to a new study. The octopus, now named Microeledone galapagensis, was ...