At 10:30AM on Friday, March 9th, FAST lab grad student Ben Jevons got an urgent email from Melissa Good, a marine advisory agent of Sea Grant in Dutch Harbor. “A fisherman here has a tote full of octopus for you. I don’t have time to work them up. What would you like us to do?”…
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APU Professor Discovers Underwater Settlement of Octopuses
Scientists (including an APU professor) have recently discovered an octopus “city” off the eastern coast of Australia, a find that suggests members of that species, Octopus tetricus, may not be as isolated and asocial as originally thought. Known as Octlantis, the settlement made of discarded shells is the second of its kind. In the 10…
