Octlantis: the underwater city built by octopuses - The Guardian

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Science Magazine​

Scientists discover an underwater city full of gloomy octopuses ...
Science Magazine
Octopuses are reclusive animals, and the gloomy octopus (Octopus tetricus) is no exception. During the day, it retreats into its den in the rocky reefs of Australia, ...
Octlantis: Where octopuses buck tradition and live in groups ...Popular Science
Newly Located 'Octlantis' Reveals 15 Octopuses Behaving Strangely ...Inverse
New Research Suggest Octopuses SocializeNewsBeat Social

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Quartz​

Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses
Quartz
Gloomy octopuses—also known as common Sydney octopuses, or octopus tetricus—have long had a reputation for being loners. Marine biologists once thought they inhabited the subtropical waters off eastern Australia and northern New Zealand in solitude, ...


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The Guardian​

Octlantis: the underwater city built by octopuses
The Guardian
One reason for these cephalopod urbs may be good food resources but, as with humans, octopus city life is no utopia. There is visible aggression as the inhabitants continually try to chase one another out of each other's dens. But Godfrey-Smith ...
“Octlantis” Discovery Proves Octopuses Are More Social Than We ThoughtFuturism

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The Times​

Biologists just discovered an underwater octopus city and they're ...
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Scientists have discovered a small octopus city – dubbed Octlantis – a find that suggests members of the gloomy octopus species (Octopus tetricus) are perhaps ...
The solitary life sucks, so octopuses build a commune | News | The ...The Times
In Australia found “city octopus”www.MICEtimes.asia (press release)
Octlantis: Underwater City of Octopus just discovered by BiologistsCriticism News
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Treehugger​

This is what an octopus city looks like (video)
Treehugger
There is still so much to understand about octopus behavior – they are brilliant creatures, but perhaps the most "other" of all. The study doesn't speculate much on the meaning behind the findings. Is it new behavior? What is the advantage? Is it as ...
Underwater octopus “city” discovered off Australian coastScience Recorder
Scientists Discovered Underwater City Built by OctopusThe Indian Tribune
Octopus City Found In Australia (Picture)WebTop News
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ScienceBlogs (blog)​

Friday Cephalopod: I succumb to peer pressure and will mention Octopolis
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You don't know that. There's no evidence and no reason to think this behavior is the product of natural selection — quite the opposite, actually. It looks to me like the spontaneous emergence of a novel property of octopus behavior in an unusual and ...


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The Indian Express​

After Octopolis, now Octlantis, two undersea 'cities' where octopuses ...
The Indian Express
Studies on the behaviour of the octopuses on the new site, named Octlantis, corroborated what had been seen during studies on the first site, Octopolis - that ...
Octopuses socialize in underwater 'cities,' say biologists – Science ...Science Recorder

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HowStuffWorks​

Turns Out 'Gloomy' Octopus Craves Socialization
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According to a study published in the September edition of the journal Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, the species Octopus tetricus (affectionately known as "the gloomy octopus") is a lot more social than previously thought. In fact, 10 ...
Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of AustraliaArs Technica

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Newsweek​

Octlantis: City Where 'Gloomy' Octopuses Live Together Discovered Near Australia
Newsweek
A team of researchers headed by marine biologist David Scheel found a group of more than a dozen octopus tetricus, living in dens made of discarded shells near Jervis Bay. This is the second time that octopus tetricus, the gloomy octopus, was found ...


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NOVA Next​

Octopuses Build a 'City' of Shells
NOVA Next
Researchers also witnessed octopus evictions, where one octopus would yank another from a den and take its place. Sometimes this would lead to a fight, exposing the octopuses to predators like sharks. In fact, Scheel and his colleagues said that sharks ...


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