{"id":606486,"date":"2026-05-27T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606486\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:22:08","slug":"new-teeny-tiny-octopus-discovered-off-the-galapagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606486\/","title":{"rendered":"New teeny tiny octopus discovered off the Galapagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Janet Voight, who works at the Field Museum in Chicago, was contacted by researchers at the Charles Darwin Institute to help them identify it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She could immediately see they had something unique on their hands: &#8220;I went through the photos and saw this one and it was like, wow, that is totally special,&#8221; she told Time Magazine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her team at the Field Museum used special scans to take thousands of pictures of the octopus, which allowed them to create digital 3D images of its insides, which meant they could figure out which family of octopuses it belongs to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Janet Voight, who works at the Field Museum in Chicago, was contacted by researchers at the Charles Darwin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-606486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}