New species may have just been discovered in rare "octopus nursery" off Costa Rica
CBSN
A new species of octopus may have just been discovered off the coast of Costa Rica. It was found in a rare brooding site that marks only the third octopus nursery known to exist in the world.
The octopus nursery was first found in 2013 with roughly 100 female octopuses brooding at a cold hydrothermal vent off the coast of Puntarenas, Costa Rica. But at that time, researchers said that they didn't see any developing embryos. That led them to believe that conditions there were not conducive to the baby octopuses being born.
But that all changed earlier this year, when a team of international researchers ventured back and saw the octopuses hatch. Their birth makes the area the world's only third-known octopus nursery, and the first known nursery for a species of deep-sea octopus, in this case, the Dorado Outcrop.
