The new species, named Microeledone galapagensis, has a blue hue, which is believed to be the rarest color in nature.

An octopus about the size of a golf ball was first spotted in 2015 near Darwin Island. A new study gives it both a formal description and a name.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother octopus broods her eggs near a small outcrop of rock unofficially called El Dorado Hill. When a female octopus broods ...

Scientists have identified a golf-ball-sized blue octopus from deep waters near the Galápagos as a new species. The discovery ...

A tiny blue deep-sea octopus discovered 5,800 feet below the Galápagos has been named Microeledone galapagensis The post This ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have identified a tiny blue octopus previously discovered in the Galápagos Islands as a new species. The female ...

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

Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa Rica, officials from the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Tuesday. An ...

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 ...

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CHICAGO — A deep-sea robot gliding over the ocean floor near the Galápagos Islands captured footage of something researchers had never seen before: a tiny, vivid blue octopus no bigger than a golf ...