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more about #tools more comments → Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: This is cool. Octopodes seem to be much smarter than they need to be to survive. How did they get that way? Should we welcome them into the Federation? more » Julius Seizure - Canuck: So I guess we shouldn't be tossing small arms and tactical nukes into that part of the ocean then. more » NerD: Blattella: There was a story the marine biologists used to tell at my university about how the the octopus tank always had rat bones in it when they cleaned it o... more » FrankenPC: I'm convinced after humans are long gone, Octopi will rule the earth. Long live Cthulhu's children! more » Hamslicer: And who cut it so neatly in half for them? more » Hamslicer: If they had made a coconut bra, then I would be impressed. more » queensowntalia: Came to make a Monty Python reference, see I am far, far too late. :) more » Roklimber: They also open jars. more » RoboBagins: As long as the beat the smirks off the faces of Dolphins when they reach human level intelligence first, I'm fine with our future 8 limbed brain broth... more » Roklimber: Octopus Bones to Octopus Spock: "Are you out of your coco nut?" more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Maybe their just tired of being teased by snails? more » GreyHammer: wow that shot where the octopus is traveling with the shell is just amazing. more » evildead1971: it's probably all the radioactive waste we've been dumping; the fish are getting smarter more » resonanteye: The Narrenturm is good, but the Mütter Museum is better. more » bonniegrrl: If anyone wants to buy me something special for the holidays, one of these books would do the trick. HINT HINT. more » -
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Octopus Uses Coconut Shells as Portable Armor
Tools aren't just for vertebrates anymore. The veined octopus has been spotted lugging around coconut shells to serve as mobile shelters, the first time scientists have observed tool use in an invertebrate species. More »
