Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
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Octopus befriends Mr Potato Head
An octopus at the Blue Reef Aquarium, Newquay, has grown quite attached to a Mr Potato Head toy.
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The cephalopod can be found playing with the toy for an hour at a time, which contains the added bonus, or maybe more an incentive, of food.
“The secret space within Mr Potato Head allows us to hide tasty treats like fresh crab inside, and that perhaps more than anything has resulted in him becoming such a hit,” said Slater.
Practical Fishkeeping
It's amazing what I miss when I don't keep up with my newsfeeds.
Posted by Jeff at January 27, 2008 12:00 AM
Danger!
Posted by Jeff at January 5, 2008 12:59 PM
Scorpions
The discovery in 390-million-year-old rocks suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were far larger in the past than previously thought, said Simon Braddy, a University of Bristol paleontologist and one of the study's three authors.
"This is an amazing discovery," he said Tuesday.
"We have known for some time that the fossil record yields monster millipedes, super-sized scorpions, colossal cockroaches, and jumbo dragonflies. But we never realized until now just how big some of these ancient creepy-crawlies were," he said.
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