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Origin Completely translucent but for a few specks of yellow-hued organs, a rare glass octopus made its debut on a live recording captured by scientists aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor in July 2021. And after footage of the glass octopus went viral online, the exploration agency took to social media on July 10 to “clear up” facts about the deep-sea animal. Spotted at a depth of over 2,100 feet at an underwater mountain known as a Seamount, relatively little is known about the species known scientifically as Vitreledonella richardi. This is in large part due ...

th annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl. It was the first win for Dougherty Valley High School in the team’s history, a news release said. An interdisciplinary ocean science education program of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, the NOSB tests students’ knowledge of ocean science topics, including cross-disciplines of biology, chemistry, policy, physics, and geology. This year, due to the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis, students competed in a modified, virtual competition season culminating in over a week of online competition, mentoring, and interactive “field trip...

'Glass octopus' sighted by marine scientists in Pacific Ocean By Paul Best article The glass octopus is almost copletely translucent besides its optic nerve, eyeballs, and digestive tract. (Schmidt Ocean Institute) An almost completely transparent "glass octopus" was sighted in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in June by marine scientists on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor. The rarely observed cephalopod is relatively small, measuring up to just 18 inches long, including its tentacles, with a mantle length of 4.3 inches. It was sighted on June 26 nearly half a mile dee...

New marine species in the deep seas of Phoenix Islands archipelago were captured on camera by Schmidt Ocean Institute's marine scientists while on their 34-day expedition of the deep water, wherein one of the deep-sea creature rarely sighted was the 'glass octopus'. The glass octopus, named for its nearly transparent skin, looked gracefully ethereal from the video taken by scientists upon exploring the seamounts in the central Pacific Ocean aboard the research vessel Falkor for 34 days. According to the marine experts, the particular species of the octopus was previously unknown, including th...

At Ocean Space, Papua New Guinea-born artist Taloi Havini explores ocean conservation in a sound work coinciding with the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale