It could be easy to miss a blob the size of a golf ball. But its blue hue—the rarest color in nature—stood out against the sand, grabbing researchers’ attention. It wasn’t a blob but an adorable blue ...

The palm-size creature was spotted and collected during a research expedition more than a decade ago, but scientists have ...

It would have been easy to overlook. More than 1,700 metres beneath the surface near the Galápagos Islands, researchers exploring an underwater mountain spotted what appeared to be a tiny blue blob ...

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Scientists have officially named a brand new octopus species, Microeledone galapagensis, discovered nearly 6,000 feet below the Galápagos The post Scientists discover brand new species of octopus and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep-sea researchers discovered this bright blue octopus near Darwin Island in northern Galápagos. Named Microeledone galapagensis ...

As an octopus biologist, I get a call from the media every summer because someone has had an encounter with a blue-ringed octopus. Thankfully, everyone has been OK. Blue-ringed octopus are famed for ...