In pictures: Bugs of the deep
Baby octopus

The voyage was part of a much larger project, the Census of Marine Life (CoML), which is making an inventory of biodiversity in the oceans.

It is not just a question of finding new species but of understanding how and where animals like this baby octopus live, what they live on and what conditions they need.

Image: Russ Hopcroft

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