Adorable tiny blue octopus found nearly 6,000 feet beneath the Galápagos

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The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are famous for animals found nowhere else on Earth, including giant tortoises and marine iguanas. Now, scientists have added another remarkable creature to that list: a tiny blue octopus newly identified in the deep waters surrounding the islands.

The newly described species was announced in the journal Zootaxa after researchers confirmed that the unusual octopus had never been documented before.

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