Meet Adorabilis, the World's Cutest Octopus

Giving it a name is one of the easiest parts, she said. We have to collect multiple specimens. There's a lot of counting and measuring essentially. You have to differentiate one species from others. This nameless octopus might look familiar. It's the same genus as Pearl, the pink flapjack octopus (Opisthoteuthis califoriana) in the film Finding Nemo. Scientist thought they were the same animal until Bush noted key distinctions while working with the two species for the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Tentacles exhibit last year.