Properly named Grimpoteuthis, the group of eight-tentacled animals are known for their large, floating appendages that look a little bit like ears.īut, as the video above reveals, there is far more to the Dumbo octopus than its "ears." The camera-friendly creature opens its skirt at 0.24 to reveal its incredible tentacles. The Dumbo, on the other hand, is a genus of umbrella octopus that-in this case at least-is pretty adorable. Sea pigs, or Scotoplanes, are a group of sea cucumbers that look a little bit like large, gelatinous beetles. After a chorus of coos, one crew member joked the unusual cephalopod was a reward after all the sea pigs they'd watched. Is that a Dumbo?" one is heard asking as the creature emerges in the video.
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Cameras are filming much of the voyage, which you can watch online at .Įxpedition researchers were enthralled by the weird, cute octopus. This year's six-month expedition has already found a bizarre gulper eel, which inflates its jaws like a balloon, and some ocean rocks that NASA thinks might have come from space. This footage was taken by the ROV Hercules. The vessel has a number of remotely operated vehicles that can dive far below the surface. The Ocean Exploration Trust's Nautilus expedition captured footage of the octopus about 10,800 ft deep at the Southeast Davidson Seamount, southwest of Monterey, California.
Among the deepest known octopuses, they normally swim around the seafloor at depths from 9,300 ft to 23,000 ft below the surface. Nicknamed for its oversize ear-like fins, the creatures normally swim far too deep for easy viewing. Scientists have captured incredible, rare footage of a Dumbo octopus swimming off the coast of California.