Deep Sea ROV Encounters Unknown Octopus Species and More Science News of the Week

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Meet the dorado octopus, a newly described deep sea cephalopod with some seriously alien features. A remotely operated vehicle took incredible images of this species and its habitat, including just-hatched babies and a field brooding females. Click through for our top science stories from this week. 

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Scientists captured a stunning photo of two glass octopuses intertwined. They might be having deep-sea sex.

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A picture shows two octopuses closely intertwined, shot from the bottom on a pitch-black background. These are glass octopuses, their bodies are mostly transparent.
The image of two intertwined glass octopuses, seen on a deep-sea expedition.

ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute. CC BY-NC-SA

Octopuses could get the same protections as mice and monkeys thanks to a growing body of evidence that suggests they feel pain

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Under new guidelines proposed by the NIH, octopuses used in research could receive the same protections as monkeys.

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Photos show 6,000 octopuses in one spot. It's the largest known gathering ever found and a mystery that scientists only just solved.

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A time-lapse camera developed by MBARI engineers allowed MBARI researchers and collaborators to monitor nesting octopus at the Octopus Garden for more than six months.
A time-lapse camera developed by MBARI engineers allowed them to monitor nesting octopus at the Octopus Garden for more than six months.

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A Spanish firm wants to kill one million octopuses a year using 'ice slurry' baths at first-ever factory farm

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An octopus in the Mediterranean Sea.

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8 Reasons Why Octopuses Are the Smartest, Pettiest Animals

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Consider the octopus. With eight arms, elliptical pupils, color- and texture-changing skin, and a scary beak, it is a creature that seems conjured from the most Boschian of realities.

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The Most Dazzling Ocean Photos of the Year

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The oceans remain one of the most unexplored places on the planet. But every once in a while, we get a glimpse of the beauty and terror they contain.

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