A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off ...

The Carnarvon flapjack octopus was collected by scientists on a 2022 CSIRO research voyage, but it wasn't named until last ...

This was no ordinary expedition. It marked the first in-depth study of the geology, ocean conditions, and marine life beneath ...

Most people think of insects that can blend into a pile of leaves or an octopus that can match its ... round eyes. Deep-sea marine animals typically have larger eyes, which help them capture ...

Yet that's what the self-proclaimed 'fish nerds' at the Seaside Aquarium said happened when a rare and frightening deep-sea fish happened to wash up on ... In its stomach, they found several squid and ...

Deep-sea creatures often look more like science ... making this one of the best glimpses into an exceptionally rare octopus. Few things are known about the rest of its anatomy.

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

The Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre captured rare footage of a Dana octopus squid with giant bioluminescent "headlights" on its arms.

Getting an unusual glimpse a lovable deep-sea creature, marine scientists this week filmed a rarely seen Dumbo octopus far below the ocean waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.