Dr. Thomas Clements
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first heard May 2026
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These animals are so incredibly rare that even if you send an expedition down into the deep water, the chances of coming across one are so unlikely.
And I think one thing that typifies that is the reaction of the researchers when they discovered it.
They were very excited when they saw it because it's just such a rare thing.
From this specimen, we know that this type of cephalopod normally sits quite close to the seafloor and sort of bounces along.
It doesn't swim too much because it wants to conserve energy.
But we know from related animals that when they collected them, they dissected them and found that they were full of parasites.
And those parasites are actually only really found in crustaceans.
So we know that they were eating crustaceans.
One thing that I think is such a cool fact, most octopuses can change the color of their skin.
They have these things called chromatophores.
These deep water octopuses don't need that because they live in the dark.
So they're kind of see-through, but they have really pigmented internal organs.
And the scientists think that they have these organs to stop bioluminescent crustaceans from
glowing inside them and making them potentially eaten by other predators.
They're found normally in very deep waters around the Pacific and around the Atlantic, as you said, close to Antarctica.
I think a big part of this is just that we haven't done that many expeditions in these areas.
And so the geographic range will grow as we get more data.
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