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 ...

Octopuses are up to something. Cephalopods—the class of mollusks to which octopus, squid, and cuttlefish belong—are some of the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and they know it. These ...

It's a tiny gelatinous deep-sea shapeshifter with large eyes and blood-red tentacles. Meet the Carnarvon flapjack octopus, or opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis, a new species discovered off the West ...

A new deep-sea octopus with unusually large eyes has been named from specimens collected off northwestern Australia, adding another small but revealing piece to the puzzle of life far below the waves.

A new species of shape-shifting octopus has just been described by scientists in Australia. The tiny cephalopod grows only about 1.6 inches across, but it can survive more than half a mile beneath the ...

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A tiny, pink octopus might be named adorabilis by scientists because of its cute appearance. The creature, which was discovered in 1990, is from the genus Opisthoteuthis, the same group as the ...

The research vessel E/V Nautilus found a flapjack octopus that uses its tentacles to hide from its bright lights. The research vessel E/V Nautilus found a flapjack octopus that uses its tentacles to ...