cephalopod
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See a Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Octopus and Its Adorable Alien Children
A team of scientists working off the coast of Costa Rica have identified four previously unknown deep-sea octopus species in the vicinity of hydrothermal springs on the ocean floor. They also discovered two octopus nurseries affiliated with the springs, both of which belong to the newly christened dorado octopus. The researchers determined that the dorado…
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See the Fractal-Like Shells of Ammonites Like Never Before
Ammonites are a tale of two textures. The prehistoric cephalopods were composed of fleshy soft tissue (the living bit of the animals) and hard external shells, which, according to a paper published this week in Scientific Reports, may have helped the animals control their buoyancy.
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30-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Ancient Vampire Squid
The elusive vampire squid wears its red flesh like a voluminous cape. Billowing in the depths, the animal’s velvety exterior almost seems to enshroud some deeper truth of the phantasmal creature, which says merely in its choice of habitat — the pitch-black, oxygen-starved layer of the ocean — that it would prefer to be left…