Over 6,000 octopuses have been found huddling around an extinct volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean near California, and researchers now think they understand why the octopuses find it so cozy.
a bunch of deep-sea octopuses gathering together was about a decade ago, in another place where warm water seeped out of the seafloor, off Costa Rica. But researchers studying that rocky outcrop didn't see any viable eggs and thought that perhaps the higher temperatures there had harmed their development.revisited that outcrop and saw that it was actually an active, successful nursery.
"The robots we use are so advanced and they have such great technology and cameras and dexterity with their mechanical arms," says Hartwell."They enable us to not quite be down there in person, but get a lot done as if we were." "We can drive up to within eight inches of them and hold a camera right there. They don't do a thing," he says.This video from a humpback 'whale spa' shows skin care is serious — and social
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