Check Out These Mysterious Octopus Found on the Ocean Floor

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The ocean’s mysterious depths are giving us one heck of a spooky treat. This video was taken in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 15,750 feet, revealing a creature only ever seen a couple of times before.

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00:00Just in time for Halloween, the ocean's mysterious depths are giving us one heck of a spooky treat.

00:09This video was recently captured by the Minderloo UWA Deep Sea Research Center,

00:14and this is an octopus often referred to as the Big Eye Jellyhead.

00:18This video was taken in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 15,750 feet, or nearly 3 miles underwater.

00:26This is one of the few observations of this creature biologists have ever made directly,

00:30meaning we actually don't know very much about it.

00:32What we do know is that females can grow upwards of around 5 and a half feet long.

00:36Their bouncing locomotion is also a signature of their serrate octopus family,

00:40hopping along the ocean floor in search of food.

00:43In fact, researchers have recently described its cousin, the Big Fin Jellyhead,

00:47as having an identical movement pattern,

00:49hopping along and grabbing any prey it happens to bounce upon in the process.

00:53However, that one lives in much shallower waters.

00:55It's a mesmerizing and delicate dance,

00:57one used to snare other creatures in the epic depths of the ocean.

01:00Just one more of the many secrets still yet to be discovered on our planet's final frontier.

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