Watch as a ghostly creature swims through dark waters off the California coast

On Tuesday at some 10,000 feet beneath the sea, marine scientists spotted a little-seen octopus swimming through the dark, black waters.

A robotic Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) piloted by the Ocean Exploration Trust filmed this genus of Octopus, the bell-shaped Grimpoteuthis, as the ROV maneuvered around a deep-sea reef off the central California coast. 

This specific area, near the inactive volcano known as the Davidson Seamount, is an uncharted deep-sea world, according to the exploration group. 

In these hard-to-reach, largely alien places, scientists regularly observe life that has never been seen or documented before. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Watch as a ghostly creature swims through dark waters off the California coast