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Late in February, the Okeanos Explorer made the season's first dive, almost 2.5 miles down into the ocean, northeast of Hawaii's Necker Island. Down in the depths, the Explorer's remotely operated vehicle happened upon "a remarkable little octopod sitting on a flat rock," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports. It was small, ghost-like and almost definitely a species that no scientist had ever seen before. (via)