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The journal Paleontology has an interesting paper describing three new species of fossil octopi. The new fossils date to the Upper Cenomanian (the Cenomanian is part of the Cretaceous and dates to ~99-93 MYA). The paper can be found here.
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According to this BBC News article it has.
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Like every blogger I accumulate more links to interesting blogs and websites than you can shake a stick at. I am also, like many bloggers, behind in updating my blogroll. Just today I received an email telling me about a fascinating blog called the Right Whale Bay of Fundy Blog. This is a blog by [...]
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National Geographic has an interesting video on the sex lives of octopi – apparently there is a certain amount of mimicry and guile involved…. The video is based on this article:
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PZ mentioned this, back on April 10th, now there is video. Apparently, the octopus likes to play with screwdrivers and squirt water at passersby as well…
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I don’t know how I missed this, But National Geographic has a cute little octopus video…
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Regular readers of my blog may remember this post on Aurora the octopus. To refresh your memory: A month later, Aurora laid tens of thousands of eggs. Her sense of mothering was strong, despite the fact that her eggs didn’t appear to develop and aquarists eventually believed they were sterile. Day in and day out, [...]
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Baby Octopus Baby Octopus Aurora, a giant pacific octopus, has – as of Wedneday – nine new babies. We Pick up the story from Yahoo : Aurora began her long march toward motherhood last May when she was introduced to J-1, a long-in-the-tentacle bachelor. To the delight of aquarists, the two hit it off, flashing [...]
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