Mystrious ‘Ghost Octopus’ is discovered.
Mystrious ‘Ghost Octopus’ is discovered. ate in February 2016, the OKEANOS explorers made the season’s first dive, almost 4290 meters down into the ocean, in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Down in the depths, the Explorer’s remotely operated vehicle came across a remarkable little octopod sitting on a flat rock. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the American scientific agency, reports , It was small, ghost-like and almost definitely a species that no scientist had ever seen before. This little octopus was distinguished by its lack of fins and the finger-like cirri on its arms: that makes it an incirrate octopus, and one of those has never been seen this far down in the ocean before. Octopuses come in two distinct groups, Cirrate and Incirrate, and deep sea Cirrate species have side fins as well as fingerlike cirri on their suckers. Incirrate species lack both, and while they live at a variety of deptsh, many inhabit shallow wa