Footage of a white octopus flapping its fins as it swims Researchers exploring an underwater mountain in Hawaii's deep sea recently stumbled across a rare, "ghostly" dumbo octopus — one of the deepest ...

The abyssal depths of the world's oceans are a place of eerie mystery. The creatures that lurk therein live strange lives, vastly different from those on the temperate surface. An encounter with one ...

An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido University has characterized the unique mechanics that enable Arcella, a shelled, single-celled amoeba, to move skillfully across different ...

MBARI researchers have developed an innovative imaging system that can be deployed at great depths underwater to study the movement of marine life. The team used the system to study deep-sea octopus ...

Image may not be cropped or altered to remove MBARI logo watermark. Image may only be used to support media coverage of Katija et al. 2025 (In situ light-field imaging of octopus locomotion reveals ...