Octopuses had Antarctic ancestor: marine census
Sunday, November 9, 2008 - 18:00
in Biology & Nature
OSLO (Reuters) - Many octopuses evolved from a common ancestor that lived off Antarctica more than 30 million years ago, according to a "Census of Marine Life" that is seeking to map the oceans from microbes to whales.
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