This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California scientists captured rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a jellyfish. Almost a half-mile below ...

Researchers collected detailed observations about the seldom-spotted sea critter during the rare encounter on Nov. 6 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

On 6 November, researchers reported rare footage of a deep-sea octopus filmed near Monterey Bay off California, drawing global attention to one of the ocean’s least observed creatures. The octopus was ...

The deep-sea octopus is "rarely seen," per the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, which has only seen it four times in four decades Researchers collected detailed observations about the octopus ...

Lurking in the ocean's twilight zone - an area between 650 and 3,000 feet below the surface where light rarely reaches - is the seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus). Also known as the septopus, ...

Further remains of an unusual deep-sea creature called a seven-arm octopus have been found on an Aberdeenshire beach. Arms with rows of suckers were initially discovered by a member of the public at ...

Learn what this seven-armed cephalopod loves to eat and how it catches its prey. Lurking in the ocean’s twilight zone — an area between 650 and 3,000 feet below the surface where light rarely reaches ...

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