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Eared cirrate (Cirroteuthidae) viewed during Alvin dive 621.

Eared cirrate (Cirroteuthidae) viewed during Alvin dive 621.
Eared cirrate (Cirroteuthidae) viewed during Alvin dive 621.
Eared cirrate (Cirroteuthidae) viewed during Alvin dive 621.
Eared cirrate (Cirroteuthidae) viewed during Alvin dive 621.
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Eared cirrate (Cirroteuthidae) viewed during Alvin dive 621.
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02/16/1976
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From Dive 621. R. Ballard, chief scientist.
Image Of the Day caption:
It's a bird, it's a plane ... no, it's a cirrate octopus that was spotted swimming past the viewport of the human-occupied deep-sea submersible Alvin in 1976. Cirrate octopuses have fins on the sides of their heads that look a little like ears. They are sometimes called dumbo octopuses, after the big-eared flying elephant in a Disney movie. In February 2018, a team of international researchers, for the first time ever, had the rare opportunity of observing and filming another type of dumbo octopusmeasuring just a few centimetersas it hatched from its egg.
Photo courtesy of WHOI Archives
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