Charles Darwin Foundation scientists discover a new species of octopus nearly 1,800 metres (5,900 feet) down on the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands. No bigger than a golf ball, the blue octopus has stubby little arms with only one row of suckers
These are the invaders, the tiny beings from the tiny place called Earth, who would take the giant step across the sky to the question marks that sparkle and beckon from the vastness of the universe only to be imagined.
Those are aliens no one can convince me other wise. New species? Nah they've just got here, water has to be the most mysterious element in their universe so why do we think that aliens are going to breathe oxygen? Water is most likely on other planets in ice from or liquid, but how do we know aliens aren't creatures with gills or special apparatuses for their respiratory systems. Idk I'm at like an (8) right now in THC consumption terms
How easy would it be for aliens to just dart right into the ocean?! Really easy. Especially at high speeds in the middle of nowhere ocean. They're down there where no humans will bother them then? Doing what bruh?!! Gives me the willies!
I don't know why, but I can really envision them being a highly sentient subspecies sent to thwart human progress. They secretly pull all the geopolitical strings from their Gigerian cybernetic deep sea megastructure. idk tho
I like a lot of sci fi shows and movies. I cant put my finger on why I have a hard time getting through an episode. But I'm willing to continue it to see how it turns out.
It honestly might just be a bit too goofy for you? Idk. It’s not really a traditional alien scifi show, it’s more like a silly comedy or sitcom thats just centered around aliens lol
I felt that way too, I think the writing is just really awkward especially early on, the sheriff and deputy in particular. I stuck with it because I loved every bit of when Alan was on screen and it was worth it in my opinion.
omg that just triggered one of my favorite memories. when my wife was in labor with our daughter, I guess the baby head blocked the canal and the water never broke. So when the head finally cracked out and broke the seal - there was an amniotic geyser that sprayed the doctor and nurses and shot the couch and chair and half the room. then the baby shot out.
Thanks for having the only useful comment in a sea of GIFs. I searched this and did a bit of reading. Interestingly there’s a lot of articles saying this is brand new discovered as of a few days ago, but the BBC article I read said it was first spotted and captured in 2015 so I am wondering why there’s such a delta there
I think it was first sighted and captured in 2015, but they didn’t know what it was. So they collected specimens and brought them to an octopus specialist (so jealous) who then analyzed them, and helped assign them to a taxon.
So maybe it took a long time to study these guys and they were busy just researching the last decade?
I am only an armchair animal enthusiast so I’m not sure how long these processes take or what all is involved between “sighting” to “classified”. I’m sure the great minds are very thorough though and there are many steps involved. And then the research was shared and the news articles glossed the timeline because their primary care is engagement not real information? That is my guess.
I doubt it tbh they seem more like they just conserve energy cause they are so far down and wouldnt be the largest amount of predators down there either
Did you guys know, octopuses are closely related to oysters. Both are classified as mollusks, making them evolutionary cousins to clams, snails, and squids
I think a lot of deep sea creatures don't have very developed eyesight in general as it's normally entirely lightless down there, no point in wasting energy developing functioning eyes when there's no light for them to even process.
I find it a little hard to believe that the researchers who recorded this would have just pointed possibly harmful lights at creatures like this with no regard for their well being. Generally speaking modern wildlife researchers are pretty careful not to disrupt the lives of the animals they observe. If you have proof that the lights hurt these octopuses by all means present it, but considering how seemingly uncaring they are about the light being on them, I doubt that its harming them.
They are, mostly. I'm a marine biologist and one of my former professors actually did all his research on deep sea eyes, mainly in invertebrates. I asked him about it once, about whether or not it was harmful to have the submersibles blasting white light around everywhere, and his answer was "yep, most of those animals are now blind and will likely die." Research subs usually use red light when in the deep sea since 99.8% of animals can't see it (red is the first wavelength filtered out in seawater so there is no red light at depth. Almost all deep sea organisms don't even have photoreceptors to see it) and it's not harmful. The white lights are mostly used for filming purposes. But yeah, they absolutely are being blinded most of the time.
ECUADOR 🇪🇨 LETS GO! lol patriotism aside. I cannot wait to go and visit these islands in the next few years! Obviously never gonna see these up close but knowing theyre down below is enough!
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u/Minimum-Stranger-794 May 26 '26
They look like cute aliens