A tiny deep-sea octopus with large eyes and blood-red tentacles, named Carnarvon flapjack, has been recently discovered.

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off ...

The researchers dubbed the sea creature the Carnarvon flapjack octopus (Opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis). Carnarvon derives ...

The tiny Carnarvon flapjack octopus is the latest of ten species described by Australian scientists after a 2022 research ...

Using both rapid color and texture changes ... the unique body patterns of Wunderpus photogenicus, an Indo-Pacific octopus species. In that paper, the authors showed that the body patterns ...

In most species, chromatophores help an octopus change color to blend in with its surroundings. On the glass octopus, this could be what triggers its skin to be translucent. If it were not for the ...

There are octopus species that live in the arctic and also ... squeezing their boneless bodies through tiny crevices and changing the color and texture of their skin in a flash to match their ...

But the process of shifting hues or holding a color takes a significant ... Shallow water octopuses like the species used in the study (Octopus rubescens) have about 230 chromatophores per square ...

Like other octopus species, the California two-spot octopus can change its color, but is naturally a mottled brown. Shortly after adopting Terrance, the Clifford family learned that their pet ...

Octopuses are cephalopods that live in oceans around the world. They are also some of the most intelligent creatures on Earth. Their brain structures vary depending on where they live. For example ...

The dorado octopus is one of the newly identified octopus species found during the expedition. | ROV SuBastian, Schmidt Ocean Institute ...