To capture images, the research team used a special deep-sea camera, designed by chief scientist Alan Jamieson, PhD. Dumbo octopus species have been off the California and Oregon coasts ...

The dumbo octopus, named after a Disney character, lives closer to the ocean floor than any of its other octopod relatives. NOAA Ocean Explorer/Wikimedia Commons ...

The octopuses also have a single line of about 65-68 suckers along each arm. These are flanked by hair-like projections called cirri. This places them in the deep-sea cirrate octopus group, which is ...

During a dive in the Gulf of Mexico last month, team members from NOAA’s research vessel Okeanos Explorer captured rare footage of an adorable little deep-sea octopus named after a pachyderm. The ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Sightings of dumbo octopuses are rare, so researchers were enthralled when one appeared on their submersible's camera on a deep-sea dive near Hawaii. More from News ...

Two miles beneath the ocean surface, at the base of a deep-sea seamount they uncovered the largest known gathering of octopus in the world – 20,000 pearl octopus breeding in warm hydrothermal ...

NOAA scientists said they spotted the deep-sea octopus far below the surface while exploring Woollard Seamount, roughly 40 nautical miles north of Holaniku during the Ala 'Aumoana Kai Uli (NA154 ...

The title of ‘mum of the year’ goes to Graneledone boreopacifica. This deep-sea octopus was observed brooding her clutch of eggs for 53 months – that’s nearly four and a half years. It’s the longest ...

In 2005, members of the VISIONS 05 expedition crew captured the first high-definition video of a white deep-sea octopus Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here ...