Tiny alien-like blue octopus discovered lurking off the Galapagos Islands

It’s tiny. It’s blue. And it has scientists awe-struck. A golf ball-size octopus found on the deep seafloor off the Galápagos Islands is an entirely new species, scientists just announced. In July of 2015, during a 10-day expedition in the Pacific Ocean, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus launched a robotic sub called Hercules just off the coast of Darwin Island, part of the Galápagos archipelago. On an underwater mountainside some 1,773 meters below the sea’s surface, they discovered a little.