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Just in time for Halloween, the ocean’s mysterious depths are giving us one heck of a spooky treat. This video was taken in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 15,750 feet, revealing a creature only ever seen a couple of times before.

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00:00Just in time for Halloween, the ocean's mysterious depths are giving us one heck
00:08of a spooky treat. This video was recently captured by the Minderloo UWA
00:12Deep Sea Research Center and this is an octopus often referred to as the big-eye
00:17jellyhead. This video was taken in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 15,750 feet
00:23or nearly three miles underwater. This is one of the few observations of this
00:28creature biologists have ever made directly, meaning we actually don't know
00:31very much about it. What we do know is that females can grow upwards of around
00:35five and a half feet long. Their bouncing locomotion is also a signature of their
00:39serrate octopus family, hopping along the ocean floor in search of food. In fact,
00:43researchers have recently described its cousin, the big fin jellyhead, as having
00:47an identical movement pattern, hopping along and grabbing any prey it happens
00:51to bounce upon in the process. However, that one lives in much shallower waters.
00:55It's a mesmerizing and delicate dance, one used to snare other creatures in the epic
00:59depths of the ocean. Just one more of the many secrets still yet to be discovered
01:03on our planet's final frontier.

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