Sci­en­tists ex­plor­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s deep wa­ters have col­lect­ed what could be the first known spec­i­men of an un­known deep-sea oc­to­pus, a dis­cov­ery that may rep­re­sent a species new to sci­ence.

The spec­i­men was found dur­ing the coun­try’s first Trinidad and To­ba­go-led deep-sea sci­en­tif­ic ex­pe­di­tion aboard the re­search ves­sel RV Falkor (too).

The ex­pe­di­tion team an­nounced on so­cial me­dia that re­searchers col­lect­ed what is cur­rent­ly be­lieved to be the on­ly spec­i­men of its kind ever re­cov­ered.