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

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 ...

A remotely operated vehicle gliding 700 meters below the surface of the equatorial Atlantic has filmed one of the ocean’s ...

A hiker discovered the tentacles of the world's largest octopus species washed ashore on an Aberdeenshire beach. The remains were found on Sunday, November 30, at Forvie National Nature Reserve in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 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 ...