Researchers studying a deep-sea octopus called Muusoctopus robustus have found thousands of the animals congregating at hydrothermal springs near an underwater mountain off California, raising fresh ...

A rare and adorable octopus has been spotted during a livestream from a deep-sea expedition, delighting the researchers. The creature, known as a dumbo octopus, was caught on camera during an ...

In 2017, the Schmidt Ocean Institute—a research institute founded by husband and wife team Eric and Wendy Schmidt —sent its Falkor research vessel to the southern half of the Phoenix Islands in the ...

The blanket octopus uses venomous man o’ war tentacles as weapons, doubling its reach and surviving in the open ocean.

Scientists exploring the deep waters near the Hawaiian Islands spotted a rare "Dumbo" octopus about a mile below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The octopus was seen on an unnamed seamount in the ...

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An almost completely transparent "glass octopus" was sighted in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in June by marine scientists on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor. The rarely ...

HONOLULU — Scientists exploring deep waters northwest of the Hawaiian Islands have released a video of a rare “Dumbo octopus” that was sighted about a mile beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

The abyssal depths of the world's oceans are a place of eerie mystery. The creatures that lurk therein live strange lives, vastly different from those on the temperate surface. An encounter with one ...

An octopus scoots along the reef during one of Anne Rillero’s Sunday swims off the Makena coast. A friend, Don Bloom, dove down to snap a photo. DON BLOOM photo At the Maui Ocean Center, head aquarist ...