Here's rare footage of the elusive Glass Octopus. This footage was captured by Schmidt Ocean Institute team on a 34-day expedition in the U.S. Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. Little is known about this species and to date, there are very few sightings and only a few specimens recovered from the gut contents of their predators. 📷: @divetopia (IG) #wearessi | SSI

This rarely-seen glass octopus was caught on camera. The clear sea creature was filmed by an underwater robot during an expedition off of the Phoenix Islands, more than 3,200 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia. Little is known about the unique cephalopods aside from the fact that they live in tropical and subtropical areas of the deep ocean. Glass octopuses are so elusive that they were unknown to science until 1918. ‘Expeditions like these teach us why we need to increase our efforts to resto