This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

Deep in the ocean, living in eternal darkness, is the dumbo octopus (of the genus Grimpoteuthis), a creature that few humans have seen face-to-face. When someone is lucky enough to spot one, they're ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Sightings of dumbo octopuses are rare, so researchers were enthralled when one appeared on their submersible's camera on a deep-sea dive near Hawaii. More from News ...

NOAA scientists said they spotted the deep-sea octopus far below the surface while exploring Woollard Seamount, roughly 40 nautical miles north of Holaniku during the Ala 'Aumoana Kai Uli (NA154 ...

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around ... They are “cirrate” octopuses, a group of deep-sea octopuses that have slender protrusions trailing from their suckers called cirri.

These are flanked by hair-like projections called cirri. This places them in the deep-sea cirrate octopus group, which is one of the two main divisions of octopuses. The other division is the ...

To capture images, the research team used a special deep-sea camera, designed by chief scientist Alan Jamieson, PhD. Dumbo octopus species have been off the California and Oregon coasts ...