They feed on snails, worms, and other creatures they hoover up from the ocean floor. They are “cirrate” octopuses, a group of deep-sea octopuses that have slender protrusions trailing from ...

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It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is ...

In these waters, their mottled orange-and-white bodies, cream-colored undersides, and spiny, oval carapaces blend in with the rocks on the ocean floor. Those round shells and long legs give ...

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