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PARIS: On the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands, a submersible controlled by scientists came across a mysterious octopus as blue as the ocean and no bigger than a golf ball.
“He’s tiny! It’s blue!” one excited scientist was recorded as saying when she first caught sight of the cerulean cephalopod on footage transmitted from the sub.
The team from the Charles Darwin Foundation had just discovered a new species of octopus nearly 1,800 metres below the water’s surface, according to research published on Monday.
“Right away, I knew it was something really special,” said octopus expert Janet Voight, who was asked to identify the strange species. At first the curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago had to make do with photos of the animal.
