Scientists searching the deep sea off the coast of Hawaii released video this month of a dumbo octopus, the deepest-living of all known octopuses.
other invertebrates to eat, the dumbo octopus borrows its name from Disney’s big-eared animated elephant.
Finding one of these creatures is a needle-in-a-haystack problem: This genus of octopus is uncommon and, because it is able toShare The ocean is vast and can be lonely, so females keep eggs in different stages of development so they can mate with a male when they’re lucky enough to encounter one. Females go all the way to the bottom of the ocean to lay their eggs on rocks.More than a dozen species of dumbo octopuses have been discovered. The largest dumbo octopus recorded was nearly six feet long,, but most are much smaller.
“When I saw it on the screen, I couldn’t even say anything,” Jaina Galves, who was controlling the underwater camera,The footage was captured by a remotely operated vehicle launched by the E/V Nautilus, a research vessel owned by the
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