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First Video of Baby Dumbo Octopus Shows They’re Fully Formed From Birth. The deep sea creatures, which are named after Disney’s floppy-eared elephant, use their giant fins for navigation
If there were a competition for the most adorable ocean creature, the dumbo octopus - named for the ear-like fins with which it swims - would be right up there. And now, for the first time, you can see an even-more-adorable newborn dumbo octopus thanks to researchers who have caught the little cephalopod on camera.
The Dumbo octopus is actually an entire genus of 17 different species of octopus. Belonging to the Opisthoteuthidae family, they are a type of umbrella octopus. This means that they have webs of skin connecting their tentacles. It is what gives the octopus its round bell shape.
Dumbo octopuses are named for the elephant-ear-like fins they use to navigate the deep sea, but until recently, when and how they developed those floppy appendages were a mystery. Now, for the...
A baby dumbo octopus is just like its parent, but tiny — which makes it even more adorable. The creature was seen for the first time in footage taken in 2005 by Woods Hole Oceanographic ...
Deep-sea researchers captured an adorable video of a baby 'Dumbo' octopus swimming for the first time, revealing the baby has all the stuff to swim and sense its environment.
Dumbo octopuses sport a pair of rounded fins that resemble the animated elephant's famously large ears. They are also rare and mysterious since they live at deep-sea...
Scientists have discovered a potentially new species of the adorable “dumbo” octopus in a very unique place. At more than 4 miles (6,957 meters) under the Indian Ocean, the newly discovered...
Scientists have released the first footage of a baby “dumbo”—and it’s no elephant. This is an elusive deep sea creature whose name hails from the Disney character we all know and love for its...
Dumbo octopuses (genus Grimpoteuthis) are deep-sea denizens that lay their eggs in large capsules on the ocean floor, where their offspring develop without parental care. Researchers reported in Current Biology on Monday (February 19) that they captured the first video of a dumbo hatchling and used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to analyze ...