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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'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, ...

This octopus has devised an ingenious way to create a moveable shelter by assembling two halves of a coconut shell. - [Narrator] Our understanding of octopus intelligence took another leap forward, ...

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