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SEE IT: A newly discovered golf ball-sized blue octopus species was discovered off the coast of the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands, bringing excitement to researchers.<\/p>\n

GAL\u00c1PAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador \u2013 Researchers made an astonishing discovery off the coast of Ecuador last week, as a new creature caught the eyes of experts on the ocean<\/a> floor.<\/p>\n

Off the coast of the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands in Ecuador<\/a>, a tiny blue octopus roams the sandy landscape, unknown to most.<\/p>\n

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This tiny blue creature was first discovered during a deep-sea expedition in 2015, as researchers used a remotely operated underwater robot (ROV) to explore the ocean floor at a depth of around 5,800 feet, according to a peer-reviewed publication on Eureka Alert<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Researchers <\/p>\n

Researchers discover a new species of octopus, Microeledone galapagensis.<\/p>\n

(Charles Darwin Foundation)<\/p>\n

Through the ROV, researchers were able to collect dozens of this newly discovered species and take them for further evaluation at the Charles Darwin Research Station.<\/p>\n

The researchers had difficulty identifying the species of this octopus and sent it to octopus<\/a> expert Janet Voight at the Field Museum in Chicago<\/a> for examination.<\/p>\n

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Through advanced micro-CT scanning at the museum’s X-ray laboratory, researchers compiled 3D images of the octopus’s interior, revealing the fine details of its organs, mouth and other wild features, all without cutting into the wondrous creature.<\/p>\n

This information was crucial when declaring a new species to science.<\/p>\n

\"Newly <\/p>\n

Newly discovered tiny blue octopus found off coast of the Galapagos Islands.<\/p>\n

(Charles Darwin Foundation)<\/p>\n

The new species, named Microeledone galapagensis, was discovered and classified by\u00a0Janet Voight and her team of scientists.<\/p>\n

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As water covers 71% of the planet, each discovery from the ocean is a humble reminder of how much remains to be explored and what else could be hiding below the surface, waiting to be discovered for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEE IT: A newly discovered golf ball-sized blue octopus species was discovered off the coast of the Gal\u00e1pagos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2721,2719,2723,44,2722,2720,2439,2718,2725,278,2724,1082],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-animals","tag-beaches","tag-earth-space","tag-golf","tag-illinois","tag-learn","tag-ocean","tag-south-america","tag-stay22","tag-us","tag-wildlife","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}