The abyssal depths of the world's oceans are a place of eerie mystery. The creatures that lurk therein live strange lives, vastly different from those on the temperate surface. An encounter with one ...

This ghostly-looking orange cirrate octopus was observed with the MBARI’s ROV Doc Ricketts on my recent research cruise to the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to an order of animals ...

The cirrate octopus Cirroteuthis muelleri is often found in the Arctic Ocean Prior studies of the octopuses' stomach contents suggested that they feed on the seafloor Researchers observed a handful of ...

A peculiar octopus resembling Disney's Dumbo has been captured on camera two miles below the ocean surface by thrilled marine biologists. The elusive sea creature was recorded nearly 2.4 miles down ...

Deep-sea researchers led by Robert Ballard (best known for his 1985 discovery of the Titanic wreckage) have caught a rare, extended look at an uncharacteristically jumbo dumbo octopus, with the aid of ...

Credit to NOC and Deepscape.org: Coarse rocky ground with cirrate octopus (Cephalopod) above the seabed taken at 1126m in the Faroe-Shetland Channel. Others great images can be viewed by searching ...