This remarkable sea creature resembles the softest, rainbow-colored blanket gently floating through the deep ocean. A video ...

So far, only one of the new species of deep-sea octopus has been named. All four new species, found in a 100-square-mile-sized area off Costa Rica, are in the process of being given formal ...

In the depths of Earth's briny waters lurk some truly strange deep-sea creatures Rare and remarkable deep-sea creatures ...

A petite octopus propels itself through the deep sea. Gif: Schmidt Ocean Institute Three of the new species are still being described by the team; the only species imaged and named in a recent ...

A deep-sea octopus nursery, just the third known to exist, has been discovered off the coast of Costa Rica, according to the Schmidt Ocean Institute. Scientists were able to see an active octopus ...

“The discovery of a new active octopus nursery over 2,800 meters beneath the sea surface in Costa Rican waters proves there is still so much to learn about our Ocean,” said Schmidt Ocean ...

The octopus could be seen floating into view of the team’s ROV Atalanta’s camera as it hovered about 5,518 feet (1,682 meters) deep below sea level in an unnamed seamount in the PMNM area.

The other known octopus nursery is about 3,200 meters (2 miles) below the ocean surface on the Davidson Seamount off the coast of Monterey, California, where thousands of octopuses cluster around ...

The amazement I felt reading each word draws me to so many of the other works of octopus literature and ocean fiction that populate my shelf: From the heartwarming story of Gina Chung’s “Sea Change” ...