A huge ice sheet appears to have melted about 120,000 years ago, when temperatures were similar to those on Earth today, according to a DNA study that mapped octopus movements.
Tag: Octopus
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Video Footage: Is This Octopus Having a Nightmare?
In a study that has yet to be peer-reviewed, scientists documented behavior in a captive cephalopod that they say looks very similar to a bad dream.
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Sometimes This Octopus Is So Mad It Just Wants to Throw Something
A study finds that the gloomy octopus — its real name — is in the small club of animals that toss things at other members of their own species.
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It Looks Like a Shell, but an Octopus and 40,000 Eggs Live Inside
Scientists are studying how the argonaut octopus evolved the ability to produce a floating shell-like structure to care for its offspring.
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Octopuses Don’t Have Backbones — or Rights
As cephalopods become more important in neuroscience and other fields, scientists and welfare advocates seek to give the smart animals the same protections as mice and monkeys.