The palm-size creature was spotted and collected during a research expedition more than a decade ago, but scientists have ...

Nature can be a lot of things—beautiful, bloody, sweet, savage. And sometimes it's just plain cute. For the latest example of nature at its most adorable, look no further than the little blue ...

It would have been easy to overlook. More than 1,700 metres beneath the surface near the Galápagos Islands, researchers exploring an underwater mountain spotted what appeared to be a tiny blue blob ...

Marine scientists appear to have found some more natural wonders of the ocean: not one, but two deep-sea octopus nurseries in the waters of Costa Rica. One of these nurseries was previously thought to ...

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Scientists have officially named a brand new octopus species, Microeledone galapagensis, discovered nearly 6,000 feet below the Galápagos The post Scientists discover brand new species of octopus and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dumbo octopuses live in the deep open ocean down to depths of at least 13,100 feet (4000 m) and perhaps much deeper, making this ...