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

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…