Hardly Anyone Has Seen 'Cute' New Octopus Species
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May 25, 2026
If you want to meet the newest octopus on the scientific record, you'll need to head nearly 6,000 feet down off the Galapagos. Researchers have formally identified a bright blue, golf ball-sized species, Microeledone galapagensis , in the journal Zootaxa —more than a decade after first spotting it with a...
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