{"id":81989,"date":"2025-08-19T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81989\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:06:09","slug":"octopus-with-special-trick-filmed-drifting-through-the-darkness-1047m-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81989\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopus with special trick filmed drifting through the darkness 1,047m down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImagine a life spent riding currents, never touching solid earth,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schmidtocean.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Schmidt Ocean Institute<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DL0ZEcLTpw3\/?igsh=N2E1eHJrMXF4ZWJn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0alongside a captivating video of a pelagic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/squid-vs-octopus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">octopus<\/a>\u00a0drifting along. &#8220;You\u2019d have to be different than others of your kind so you can easily hide in plain sight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The octopus was gliding along 1,047 metres deep when pilots of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) caught it on camera during the 2023 Octopus Odyssey expedition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although its bright orange hue makes it stand out to us, it may actually help the creature hide because orange isn\u2019t visible between 200 and 1,000 metres deep, Schmidt Ocean Institute says. They add that MBARI Senior Scientist Bruce Robison, a midwater ecologist, thinks the species is\u00a0Japetella diaphana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See the octopus drifting through the deep. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute<\/p>\n<p>Top image and video credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/schmidtocean.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Schmidt Ocean Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More amazing wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cImagine a life spent riding currents, never touching solid earth,\u201d says\u00a0Schmidt Ocean Institute\u00a0on\u00a0Instagram\u00a0alongside a captivating video of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-81989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}