SciFri: Isn’t this Adorabilis?

Filed under Life: Animals & Plants
2015-06-21

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SciFi made this short little film about a tiny octopus with big yes.

In it, we get to follow Stephanie Bush of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, who aims to classify and name this presently undescribed deep-sea cephalopod using preserved specimens and a clutch of eggs hatch housed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

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