Walking octopuses discovered

[KiwiCoromandel]

Walking octopuses discovered

Mar 25, 2005

Two little species of Indian Ocean octopus can tuck up six of their arms while running on the other two, US researchers have reported.

They can use their other six arms to disguise themselves from predators, either as rolling coconuts or clumps of floating algae, the team at the University of California Berkeley and Universitas Sam Ratulangi in North Sulawesi, Indonesia found.

The discovery, published in the journal Science, discredits theories that walking requires hard bones and skeletal muscle, as octopuses have neither.

"We have observed octopuses that do indeed walk," Berkeley's Christine Huffard and colleagues write in their report.

"Individuals of Octopus marginatus (from Indonesia) and Octopus (Abdopus) aculeatus (from Australia) move bipedally along sand using a rolling gait," they added.

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[DudeAsInCool]

Walking octopuses discovered

  

This isnt new - the ho's come out every night on Sunset Boulevard

[method77]

octopuses drive fast cars too

[Potato]

I'd like to see the octopus do this, that'd be kind of cool.

[The Hunter]

Now if only some members of the Bush administration would evolve into Homo erectus, and stop walking on all fours we would really have something to talk about.

[DudeAsInCool]

Now if only some members of the Bush administration would evolve into Homo erectus, and stop walking on all fours we would really have something to talk about.

What? Cheney would have to change his first name

[The Hunter]

He could always keep his first name, and just change his last name to Head. :bigsmile:

[Shawn]

That's pretty cool.

[slum_goddess]

we saw this on tv the other night, good stuff. but i'm wondering how many deepsea animals we've already inadvertently killed that we'll never know about.