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Re: Nature

Postby Vicky » Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:35 pm

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Re: Nature

Postby Keyser » Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:09 pm

Animal minds, amazing cephalopods, everyone's favourite eight armed genius and a new species of Hammerhead planarian worm that talks out of it's arse. :mrgreen:

http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21 ... ce-thought

http://listverse.com/2013/06/05/10-incr ... phalopods/

http://listverse.com/2017/06/26/10-incr ... e-amazing/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... ds-mating/
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Re: Nature

Postby Keyser » Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:16 pm

Nice specimen of Titanus giganteus - not the largest ever captured by any means but a decent size nonetheless. :cuppaT:

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Re: Nature

Postby Stooo » Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:18 pm

Octopi evolved around the same time as us as a species, it's credible to assume that they have emotions and memories.

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Re: Nature

Postby Keyser » Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:58 pm

Stooo wrote:Octopi evolved around the same time as us as a species, it's credible to assume that they have emotions and memories.

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Actually Stooo they have been around vastly longer than us - cephalopods for over 500 million years and the oldest (known) fossil octopus is Pohlsepia mazonensis at 296 million years old.

They are well known to be incredibly intelligent creatures - one of the animal kingdom's great geniuses. :cuppaT:
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Re: Nature

Postby Vicky » Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:31 pm

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Re: Nature

Postby Keyser » Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:07 pm

A new species has been discovered - the Hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta)

https://theconversation.com/the-four-ye ... fish-81265

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... nfish-spd/

Also just showing how truly massive a mature Mola mola can get.

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/o ... -us-wrong/

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