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Meet the Carnarvon flapjack octopus, a newly-discovered species of rare and unusual octopus

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It’s a tiny gelatinous deep-sea shapeshifter with large eyes and blood-red tentacles.

Meet the Carnarvon flapjack octopus, or opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis, a new species discovered off the West Australian coast.

It was collected by scientists during a CSIRO voyage in 2022 from the Carnarvon…



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