Scientists didn’t discover a single male Blanket octopus until 2002 because they were looking at the wrong magnitude. Females can be up to 40,000 times more massive than males; the largest gender size discrepancy in the animal kingdom.
This summer, we’ve teamed up with Nautilus Live
to explore many of our West Coast national marine sanctuaries.
Recently, the Nautilus’ ROV spotted this deep sea octopus in Arguello Canyon near
NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
If anyone writes some sort of merpeople/marine biologist/just anything oceanic-related AU, BB-8 should be a dumbo octopus because they are both round and cute.
