Scientists discover new little blue octopus in Galapagos Islands
Key takeaways
- Scientists knew they had encountered something special when they first saw the tiny blue octopus in the depths of the Galapagos Islands.
- And it must have been very exciting for the one person who knew there was something special about the octopus when she first saw it more than ten years ago — the scientist who led the study describing the new animal.
- "Right away, I knew it was something really special.
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Scientists knew they had encountered something special when they first saw the tiny blue octopus in the depths of the Galapagos Islands.
https://p.dw.com/p/5ELHw Octopus discovered near the equatorial Galapagos island of Darwin Image: Charles Darwin Foundation/AFPAdvertisement There's a new octopus on the ocean floors of Ecuador's Galapagos Islands that is tiny and blue (and cute) but with a long name — Microeledone galapagensis.
The news is exciting because the octopus is the size of a golf ball and because scientists know very little about octopuses that live deep in the tropical Pacific Ocean, as described in the study about the octopus published on Monday in the journal, Zootaxa.