Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>New species of octopus discovered in a deep-sea canyon <a href="https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2025/May/New-species-of-octopus-discovered-in-a-deep-sea-canyon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2025</span><span class="invisible">/May/New-species-of-octopus-discovered-in-a-deep-sea-canyon</span></a></p><p>"The Carnarvon Flapjack <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Octopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Octopus</span></a> is a gelatinous <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSea</span></a> octopus that grows to around 4 centimetres diameter... It's the 10th and latest <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NewSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewSpecies</span></a> to be described from specimens collected during a 2022 voyage by RV Investigator... The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/FlapjackOctopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlapjackOctopus</span></a> is a deep-sea shape shifter with the ability to flatten its body to resemble a pancake—or flapjack—or to pull itself up to look like a tiny gelatinous umbrella."</p>