Never-before-seen octopuses discovered in deep sea off Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA (ScientificAmerican) Last month a team of scientists visited an ethereal nursery on the seafloor off Costa Rica, where they watched in awe as a new generation of deep-sea octopuses gently emerged from a quivering cluster of oblong, semitranslucent eggs. Now the researchers have confirmed these deep-sea dwellers are members of an entirely new, yet-to-be-named…