Rhonda GethingLife Sciences What Octopus Dreams Tell Us About the Evolution of Sleep WIRED - Sara Harrison Understanding how other animals dream could help us figure out why it’s so important to the human brain, and why it may have been preserved …
Rhonda GethingScience Found, Then Lost, Then Found Again: Scientists Have Rediscovered the Sand Octopus hakaimagazine.com - Hakai Magazine The crinkly form of a small, dried octopus lay on a desk in Washington, DC, 170 years ago. The curious cephalopod, collected more than 7,000 …
Rhonda GethingZoology Sleeping octopuses might experience fleeting dreams - new study The Conversation UK - Alexandra Schnell A couple of years ago an octopus named Heidi was filmed changing colours as she slept. The footage shows her flickering from a ghostly shade of white …
Rhonda GethingAustralasia 'Angriest octopus' lashes out at man on Australia beach jpost.com - By REUTERS A holiday swim gone wrong. A swim on holiday at a Western Australia beach has resulted in a painful octopus "whipping" - and a video of the encounter …
Rhonda GethingOctopuses Octopus Ancestors Were Among the Earliest Animals on Earth, Report Says haaretz.com - Ruth Schuster Fossils found in Newfoundland throw back cephalopod evolution by tens of millions of years, but does a species' longevity speak to braininess? Be not …