A recent expedition to the waters of Costa Rica has yielded new discoveries about deep sea octopuses.
One of these potential areas was found a decade ago in the Dorado Outcrop, a relatively small rock formation around 3,000 meters deep in the waters of Costa Rica. Early on, though, the nursery was believed to be doomed. Deep sea octopuses thrive best in the cold. But the Dorado Outcrop is next to a hydrothermal vent—
fissures where fluids heated by the Earth’s crust are released. And while the vent is relatively low-temperature, the waters nearby are still warmer than usual., indicating that the octopuses were unfortunately drawn to a place where new life wasn’t possible. To add more tragedy to it, octopus mothers usually stop eating after they successfully mate and will only live l0ng enough to protect their eggs until they hatch .
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