{"id":908390,"date":"2026-05-26T13:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/new-species-of-octopus-discovered-in-deep-waters-near-galapagos-islands\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:12:16","slug":"new-species-of-octopus-discovered-in-deep-waters-near-galapagos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/new-species-of-octopus-discovered-in-deep-waters-near-galapagos-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"New Species of Octopus Discovered in Deep Waters near Galapagos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature A single female specimen, collected 1,773 m below the surface near Darwin Island, has been described as a new species of deep-sea octopus, and it doesn\u2019t fit neatly into the Megaleledonidae family it belongs to, forcing a revision of the textbook definition.<br \/>\nThe post New Species of Octopus Discovered in Deep Waters near Galapagos Islands appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/biology\/microeledone-galapagensis-14792.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Tyisha Michaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature A single female specimen, collected 1,773 m below the surface near Darwin Island, has been described as a new species of deep-sea octopus, and it doesn\u2019t fit neatly into the Megaleledonidae family it belongs to, forcing a revision of the textbook definition. The post New Species of Octopus Discovered in Deep Waters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94109,536,22921],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-octopus","category-science-nature","category-species"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}