World's deepest octopus with 'Dumbo ears' seen on video

1 Jun 2020

World’s deepest octopus with ‘Dumbo ears’ seen on video

World’s deepest octopus with ‘Dumbo ears’ seen on videoHave you ever read about the 'Dumbo' octopus?

It is a type of deep-sea octopus named after Dumbo, a beloved cartoon elephant with huge ears. This is because the octopus has big ears-like fins.

Recently, scientists have captured videos of 'Dumbo' octopuses at the deepest-ever place they have ever been spotted!

It shows the octopus at a depth of 7 km in the Java Trench in the Indian Ocean. This is almost 2 km deeper than the previous video captured!
 	Scientists have captured the videos using special video cameras which they have dropped into the sea from ships. The camera then settles on the ocean floor and records whats passes by.
 	The cameras captured two different dumbo octopuses at different depths.

The octopuses on the videos are likely to be a new species of Grimpoteuthis, or the 'Dumbo' octopus family.

Why is this discovery important?

It shows that octopuses can live across at least 99% of the global seafloor!
 	But they must have also developed some special features that allow them to live so deep under the sea,

This also shows us that the deep-sea has different kinds of creatures, not only scary-looking ones.

Watch a video of a Dumbo octopus taken before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4pqu5FTaI&feature=emb_logo

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