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Tiny blue octopus discovered in Galapagos Islands

Strange new species of blue octopus discovered by scientists 5,900 feet underwater: "It's beautiful"

The team from the Charles Darwin Foundation had just discovered a new species of octopus about 5,900 feet below the water's surface, according to research published on Monday.

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Tiny Blue Octopus 'the Size of a Golf Ball' Discovered Near the Galápagos Islands

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Tiny blue octopus discovered in the Galapagos Islands

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Scientists stunned to discover new species of tiny, blue octopus living 6,000 ft underwater

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New species of blue octopus discovered 5,900 feet underwater

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The size of a golf ball: Tiny blue octopus discovered nearly 6,000 feet deep in Galápagos

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A rare octopus the size of a golf ball just surfaced in a live camera feed 6,000 feet below the Galápagos — a brand-new species no one had laid eyes on until now

Nearly 6,000 feet beneath the Galápagos Islands, in water so deep that no trace of sunlight reaches the seafloor, a remotely operated vehicle’s camera caught something unexpected: a tiny, vivid blue octopus drifting through the darkness,

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This tiny blue octopus from the Galápagos could curl up in your hand and shows how much deep ocean remains unexplored

The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth—things like marine iguanas and giant tortoises. In a new paper in the journal Zootaxa,