This is a video of a robotic spy octopus built by John Downer Productions for the BBC/PBS series Spy In The Wild capturing the daily activities of a coconut octopus. And what exciting daily activities they are! The coconut octopus is unique in that it’s one of only two species

Because almost everything under the sea is reminiscent of some alien from the Star Wars universe, researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have named a newly discovered species of coral after everyone’s favorite growling, bowcasting Wookie co-pilot. And rightfully so I dare say. The coral, named Iridogorgia chewbacca,

Another day, another never-before-seen video of an underwater alien (previously: a colossal squid). This time, a living specimen of a Gonatus antarcticus squid that was filmed at a depth of 7,000-feet in the Southern Ocean while shooting a video for National Geographic. The species was only previously described via dead

In a modified version of the Stanford marshmallow experiment (in which children were told they would receive a second marshmallow if they could avoid eating a first for a certain period of time), researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory at the University of Chicago have determined that cuttlefish can pass

Captured on video by the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s remotely operated submersible SuBastian, this is the first ever video of a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural habitat. The juvenile squid was filmed at a depth of 600m in the South Sandwich Islands (I love sandwiches) about 1,100 miles northeast

Seen here looking like something a child would produce if you asked them to draw a nightmare, this is a video of a rarely seen humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) spotted in shallow waters off Spain’s Canary Islands. The fish typically lives some 1,500m (~1 mile) deep in the pitch-blackness, but

Seen here catching a ride on a jellyfish because work smarter, not harder, this is an incredibly informative video from Bizarre Beasts detailing the evolutionary development of the argonaut, the only octopus with a shell, and the only one that lives in the open ocean, unlike the rest of its

This is a video of pet octopus Marty (who I believe is an Octopus bimaculatus, aka Verrill’s two-spot octopus) opening a closed jar just moments after being exposed to one for the first time. That’s impressive. How we knew to turn it is beyond me, and certainly beyond my roommate,