SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian scientists have discovery an octopus species that carries around coconut shells to hide in when threatened, behavior the researchers said was the first example of ...

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SYDNEY — Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of ...

To demonstrate how smart an octopus can be, Piero Amodio points to a YouTube video. It shows an octopus pulling two halves of a coconut shell together to hide inside. Later the animal stacks the ...

'It really is an impenetrable armour. They are so strong when they are inside gripping both sides of the shell with their hundreds of suckers.' If an octopus' garden is of the sandy, desolate variety, ...

Occurred on 2019 / Dauin, Philippines Info from Licensor: "Filmed during a night dive, this nice coconut octopus is trying to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In recent years a number of videos have emerging showing octopi carrying coconuts around the ocean floor. Scientists believe there's a very simple, entirely logical ...

Scientists have filmed the veined octopus (the Amphioctopus marginatus) picking out halved coconut shells from the sea floor, emptying them out, carrying them under its body and putting two shells ...