Rare footage of a "dumbo octopus" off the coast of California

This strange creature lives in the darkest parts of the ocean, and it's called the "Dumbo octopus" because of its ear-like fins.

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00:00Wow. Oh there we go. I love me a good cephalopod. The genus on this is Grumpetoothis.

00:20Grumpetoothis?

00:30All right, we've only got another 30 seconds or so unfortunately. That's okay, I'll take

00:46every second I can get with this guy. One more laser shot. One more would be good, yeah.

00:55Yeah, I think we've got to go a little left to get both. There we go. We're going to get every

00:59single movement of this octopus. Well tomorrow we may have a GoPro aboard. All right, I gotta

01:04move along unfortunately. Goodbye, goodbye for now. Bye, you're beautiful. Nice to meet you.