![]() Their young are precocial, as well as precocious, and there's no rearing at all, primarily because both parents are dead or dying by the time they hatch. The result being a short-lived creature of a brilliance we are only just beginning to understand.Īs a very non-scientist person, I find myself genuinely devastated that there's no parental care in octopuses, due to its limitation on their potential. Where almost all other early sea life opted for longevity, octopoda opted for intelligence. Octopuses are fascinating for so many, many reasons, but one of the most significant is their unique evolutionary direction. The reason is she's all but dead at this point. You may be wondering why, in the video above, the mummy muusoctopus doesn't appear to react to the attack on one of her precious babies. Then in one moment they happened upon an octopus hatching, as it immediately entered into a battle with a shrimp in its first seconds of life. Warmer water was found in the cracks and crevices beneath the octopuses, after the extraordinary ROV pilots were able to insert narrow temperature probes precisely below nesting octopuses with a robotic arm located three kilometres beneath their rocking boat. Their hypothesis was that there must be some sort of warm air vents in the area (which proved upon further exploration to be "areas"), and a cursory look at their results suggests this was the case. ![]() They had no idea why this would happen, most especially since the water temperatures in the area were too cold for eggs to usually survive, so this year set out to find out what was what. Last year, while conducting their exploration of the sea bed in this area, they stumbled upon hundreds upon hundreds of muusoctopuses, brooding their eggs in specific rocky areas. My attention was first brought to the Nautilus Exploration Program, and the adventures of deep-diving ROVs Argus and Hercules, when I saw a tweet about their arrival in the octopus gardens in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. (By the way, I can officially conclude that Under The Sea is better than Space, because as impressive as the work of the astronauts on the ISS may be, they have yet to discover a single new species.) 9. ![]() And oh my goodness, human beings can be extraordinary and wonderful. An in-depth exploration of the so-called 'octopus gardens', followed by some transecting of unexplored regions, and finishing with the surprise stumbling upon a spectacular whalefall.Ī week later and I'm watching a live-stream from NASA of the first all-female space walk. I say "belatedly" because they were exploring since August, and I only discovered it on their last few days of the season. It ran on my second monitor 24/7, while little to no work was completed on the first. It's safe to say I became all-consumingly obsessed with this, the feed becoming the primary importance in my life, my wife and son acknowledged if they agreed to watch it with me. Last week I very belatedly discovered the live-streamed adventures of the Nautilus scientific research ship, and their 3000m deep exploration of the sea bed of the Monterey Bay. So what's a professional games journalist of 20 years experience to do? Write ten octopus facts in less detail but with more jokes, or six more involved entries perhaps better celebrating our cephalopod friends? I've opted for the latter, and I hope you'll endorse me in this decision rather than join the inevitable social media backlash. Ed) This week Destiny 2 takes up an astonishing five out of ten spaces on the Charts.
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