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SEE IT: ‘Flying spaghetti monster’ and other recent eye-catching finds in the deep sea

(WJW) – A team of oceanographers set out on a 28-day expedition to the international waters of the Nazca Ridge, about 900 miles off the coast of Chile, and during that time they made some pretty ...
News Tribune

‘Long’-armed deep-sea creature with dozens of suckers discovered as new species

A submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a deep-sea creature with “long,” sucker-covered arms and discovered a new species, a study said. Screenshot from video shared via Tang, Zheng and Zhang (2025) ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Biologists Discover Four New Octopus Species in the Deep Ocean Off Costa Rica

One species was found brooding eggs near low-temperature hydrothermal vents, a rare sight that could unlock new information on deep-sea cephalopods Christian Thorsberg - Correspondent A mother "Dorado ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New, Shape-Shifting ‘Flapjack’ Octopus Has Been Discovered in the Deep Sea Off the Coast of Australia

A new species of shape-shifting octopus has just been described by scientists in Australia. The tiny cephalopod grows only about 1.6 inches across, but it can survive more than half a mile beneath the ...
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SEE IT: ‘Flying spaghetti monster’ and other recent eye-catching finds in the deep-sea

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJW) – A team of oceanographers set out on ...