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

A golf ball-size octopus found on the deep seafloor off the Galápagos Islands is an entirely new species, scientists just ...

A new blue octopus species, Microeledone galapagensis, was recently discovered near Darwin Island in northern Galápagos.

Nearly 6,000 feet beneath the Galápagos Islands, in water so deep that no trace of sunlight reaches the seafloor, a remotely ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

The EyeRIS camera system collects 3D visual data in near real time about the structure and biomechanics of marine life. Filming pearl octopuses (Muusoctopus robustus) with this system has provided a ...

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 ...

MBARI researchers have developed an innovative imaging system that can be deployed at great depths underwater to study the movement of marine life. The team used the system to study deep-sea octopus ...