Creation Moments on Oneplace.com - Glow, Little Octopus
The deep, dark depths of the ocean are filled with many varieties of luminescent creatures. But among the octopus, only two or three species have the ability to luminesce. But that has all changed with a remarkable series of discoveries about an already known species of octopus.The red octopus, Stauroteuthis syrtensis, lives in the deep waters off the east coast of the United States. While examining a foot-long specimen of the red octopus in 1997, scientists got a surprise when they turned off the lights in the lab, the scientists were amazed to see the octopus's suckers glowing. The…
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