A Bright Blue Creature on the Ocean Floor Looked So Unusual It Took Years to Confirm What It Was ...

"It's adorable." A strange new octopus species found on the ocean floor can comfortably fit in the palm of your hand.

A newly identified species was found in the Galápagos Islands, one of the world’s most significant biodiverse areas.

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 ...

Scientists just identified a brand-new species of octopus in the Galápagos. It's blue, tiny and absolutely adorable. (Charles ...

It’s a deep blue creature in the deep blue sea. Scientists were delighted after discovering a new species of tiny, blue ...

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

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

A golf-ball-sized blue octopus collected nearly a mile beneath the Pacific Ocean in 2015 has been formally described as a new species — and in doing so, it has forced scientists to rewrite the ...

Nearly 6,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean, somewhere in the inky darkness near the Galapagos Islands, a creature no bigger than a golf ball drifted across a camera lens. It was the moment a group of ...

A blue octopus was discovered on the ocean floor by scientists in a submersible in 2015 near the Galapagos Islands, but the video was only recently released.

When a remotely operated vehicle descended nearly 6,000 feet into the waters surrounding the Galápagos Islands, researchers were not expecting to encounter anything like what appeared on their cameras ...