Meet "Casper" the friendly Ghost Octopus 👻🐙 To reproduce, this little guy lays its eggs on sponges that grow on nodules in the deep sea, before wrapping its whole body around the clutch. It will then wait for several years for its young to hatch, not feeding, slowly waning away until it dies. But the deep sea mining industry wants to get its hands on these nodules – and once they're gone, they take millions of years to grow. We cannot allow another extractive industry to put profits over peopl

Meet Casper the friendly Ghost Octopus 👻🐙 This not so spooky Ghost Octopus was found over 2.5 miles (4,000m) deep in the waters of Hawaii. An octopus like Casper had never been seen before this sighting in 2016, especially not this deep. It was nicknamed ‘Casper’ octopus because of its ghostlike appearance and lack of appearance underwater! This species is so new that it does not have a scientific name yet! What it does have is a deadly reproductive strategy. Researchers have observed the octo