Sentences with phrase «more octopuses»

In order for this huge population to be sustained, there must be even more octopuses to replace the dying mothers and eggs that we can see,» says Voight.

The team suspects there must be more octopuses living inside crevices in the rocks, where the water is cool and rich in oxygen.

This year, most people can afford spider crab for Christmas, but no more octopus!

Not exact matches

The political situation of Judah was becoming more precarious; the people had seen Samaria swallowed up by Assyria a century before, and now the new Babylonian octopus was extending its tentacles from the East.

The company already is one of the largest importers of octopus from Spain and Portugal, and Weitzer says Arista Industries continues to look for sources that can bring more than shrimp and fish to the table.

But I figure he's ordered more than my liking of fried octopus, so he can eat a salad or two.

Vita Coco has launched an internal investigation of its product line after a New York woman reported finding a foreign object — what she called an «octopus looking thing» in her coconut water — prompting a media frenzy after a Facebook post last month that has now been shared more than 52,000 times.

The bar will serve a limited selection of typical favorite vermuth: cod fritters, octopus bomba, ham croquettes and more.

Island chefs additionally cook seafood caught daily by fishermen, including mahi - mahi, octopus, tuna and more.

The mighty pulpwood forests of the North are being clear - cut to make paper, and octopuses are being netted by the millions for the great inking fleets of the Indian Ocean, all so American television critics can write a few more column inches this dim summer on the popularity of such «reality» programs as Big Brother, Survivor and The Real World.

A traveling exhibit featuring massive, colorful sculptures of familiar ocean animals including reef fishes, sharks, octopus, penguins, sea lions and more made entirely of plastic marine debris removed from West Coast beaches.

When I decided to co-sleep, I discovered that, in reality, co-sleeping is more like trying to sleep while a drunk octopus pees on you and pokes you in the eye.

«Dumbo octopus & qquot; Grimpoteuthis bathynectes swims in the Northeast Pacific Ocean; image courtesy of University of Washington / YouTube Down in the dark depths of the deep ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to fly).

These cousins of squid and octopus were the iconic marine animals of the age of dinosaurs, flourishing worldwide for 300 million years or more before the KT extinction wiped them out.

What's more, in the first study to trick octopuses into believing video images are real scenes, the cephalopods turn out to lack «personality» or consistent behaviour.

«This study should make future octopus analysis easier and more rigorous.

In 1999 she and Anderson published an even more sensational claim: that octopuses engage in play, the deliberate, repeated, outwardly useless activity through which smarter animals explore their world and refine their skills.

Researchers at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Austria recently found one more telling indicator: Octopuses, which rely on monocular vision, favor one eye over the other.

Previous researchers tested octopuses in artificial mazes; Mather and Anderson found ways to observe learning and cognition in more natural circumstances.

But what if that surgeon's assistant was less like a standard robot — and more like an octopus?

Octopuses pick nearby landmarks to copy for their camouflage more than trying to blend into the general area; image courtesy of Keren Levi The octopus is an amazing master of disguise.

Octopuses share dinner over sex, drones watch dingos from above, world's smallest lemur found and more

Photo of the related Opisthoteuthis californiana; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Ed Bowlby, NOAA / Olympic Coast NMS; NOAA / OAR / Office of Ocean Exploration The many octopus species that live beyond the reach of vacationing snorkelers, scuba diving researchers and even near - shore commercial fisheries are relative unknowns compared with the more familiar shallow - water species.

Image of octopus camouflaging courtesy of iStockphoto / Suljo Octopuses and Kindles might have more in common than you think.

To preserve their RNA - editing powers, octopus genomes are much more resistant to mutation, the driving force of natural selection.

«The octopus genome makes studies of cephalopod traits much more tractable, and now represents an important point on the tree of life for comparative evolutionary studies,» said Ragsdale, an associate professor in neurobiology and organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.

With so little previously known about the larger Pacific striped octopus, the team hopes to continue studying the dietary needs of newly - hatched planktonic larvae to develop a captive breeding protocol and learn more about the animal's full life cycle.

The genome could also help uncover the genetic basis for other octopus innovations, such as their elaborate prehensile arms with suckers used to sense chemicals in the water as well as feel and grasp; their ability to regenerate their limbs; a propulsion system that allows them to jet around underwater; camera - like eyes that are more like humans than other invertebrates; and the fact that they have three hearts to keep blood pumping across their gills.

The researchers suspect the octopuses» behaviors are meant to make themselves appear larger and more conspicuous.

When the opposite happened and a light octopus approached a darker one, the latter more often stood its ground.

In all that video, the octopuses spent more than 7 hours interacting.

As many mysteries as the octopus holds — its comprehensive camouflage, smart suckers, agile brain — its genome is surely holding many more (including how it can regenerate its arms — suckers, nerves and all).

But the algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus) has developed a relatively sophisticated mating system that involves far more close contact than many other octopus species.

To decode the octopuses» social «language,» the scientists captured and screened 52 hours of footage of the Octopus tetricus species, a mottled, grayish - brown cephalopod known as the common Sydney octopus and also — somewhat more amusingly — the gloomy octopus.

But here is a behavior I find more intriguing: in at least two aquariums, octopuses have learned to turn off the lights by squirting jets of water at the bulbs and short - circuiting the power supply.

The next step, Scheel said, is to look more closely at the context of all the signaling, in which both octopus sexes participated.

And if even octopuses and spiders need play, if it's indeed such a basic behavior, maybe we should let our own children engage in it more, rather than rushing them from one extracurricular activity to another.

The researchers think the octopus might even be using the jellyfish tentacles to ensnare more prey.

But most other octopuses eat more substantial prey such as fish and crustaceans, so it is a surprise to see this species grow so large on jellyfish (Scientific Reports, doi.org/b43h).

It is also a costly behaviour, both in terms of energy use and in potentially making the octopuses more vulnerable to attack.

It's unfortunate that the editors chose to do this; the real photos of real squid are more than sufficient to demonstrate their variety and beauty, just as the surprising images of octopuses, fish, jellyfish, sharks, corals, and worms reveal a brilliant world hundreds of fathoms down.

The Bunbury dolphins eat both octopus and cuttlefish, and those meals appear to be more common in the winter and spring, when waters are cooler, Sprogis notes.

«But where the logistics allow them, studies are showing us that octopus behaviors are far more complex than assumed.»

But that sexual cannibalism — like most octopus behavior — hasn't actually been observed more than a few times.

Perhaps with a little more time (and a little more science) we'll eventually figure out that age old question — are you really smarter than an octopus?

They identified more than 33,000 protein - coding genes, placing the octopus genome at slightly smaller in size, but with more genes, than a human genome.

The octopus genome contains 168 protocadherin genes — 10 times more than other invertebrates and more than twice as many as mammals.

Later fights add more attack routines into his move - list, and the octopuses that are laid around the arena shooting projectiles at you grow in numbers and shoot faster as well.

It's so close to its predecessor in so many ways that I can't see much reason for it to exist, except to give xenophobic viewers an experience similar to the original, but minus the subtitled Korean and the octopus - eating scene — and with a more ostentatiously cartoonish bad guy, and lot more monologuing to explain the convoluted plot.

EXTRAS: In addition to an audio commentary by director Andrew Stanton, co-director Angus MacLane and producer Lindsey Collins, there's a series of featurettes on topics like crafting the story and animating Hank the octopus, some deleted scenes, the short film «Piper» and more.