Meet Adorabilis, the World's Cutest Octopus

The newly discovered, cartoon-like creature is so cute that adorable might become part of its scientific name. It started with a joke from a Moss Landing scientist who's faced with identifying the species. I thought that since this animal is so adorable, I should name it adorabilis, laughed Stephanie Bush, postdoctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. I'm supposed to be this really serious stoic scientist, but I'm still human. It's just so cute.