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This tiny blue octopus from the Galápagos could curl up in your hand and shows how much deep ocean remains unexplored
- May 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth—things like marine iguanas and giant tortoises. In a new paper in the journal Zootaxa, scientists have announced the discovery of the newest animal found in the Galápagos: a tiny blue octopus.
Originally published at Phys.org