Dorado Octopus (IMAGE)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Dorado Octopus

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Deep-sea octopuses brood their eggs on rocks at the Dorado Seamount offshore of Costa Rica, almost two miles below the ocean surface. Deep-sea ecosystems like these are threatened by emergent human activities like deep-sea mining. A $2 million project led by Bigelow Laboratory will help an international group of scientists find out.

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Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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