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Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a robotic suction cup prototype that is much stronger than current industrial solutions. It can grab onto rough, curved, and heavy objects like stones. The scientists were inspired by the way natural organisms, such as octopuses, can stick to rocks with their suckers. “We know that in nature there are so many soft-bodied organisms, for example, octopuses and snails and some kind of fishes, they can adaptively suck onto irregular surfaces,” said Tianqi Yue, a robotics researcher at the University of Bristol. Yue says all around us nature h...
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Demand for octopus as food has grown significantly in recent decades. Yet with concerns around overfishing restricting the number of wild octopuses caught, businesses have been researching how they can farm them. Crucially, octopuses are naturally solitary animals who will inevitably suffer in farm conditions. Confined in cramped indoor tanks of water, these intelligent, unique and sentient wild animals would cause them immense distress, causing aggression, and ultimately even cannibalism. They are also carnivorous, meaning they need to be fed wild fish in captivity — an unsustainable practice...
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For decades, breeding octopuses in captivity has proven a fish farming challenge too far, with numerous failed attempts to reproduce cephalopods outside their natural habitat. When Spanish company Nueva Pescanova announced in 2019 that it had achieved the unfeasible by cracking octopus reproduction in aquaculture, many hailed the news as a scientific breakthrough. To reap the rewards of its endeavour, the company is planning to open the first-ever octopus macro-farm along the shore of Spain’s Canary Islands to produce 3,000 tons of valuable cephalopod flesh each year. A number of scientists, e...
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By Srijit Das A video featuring a massive octopus crawling into a parking lot and wrecking a car's roof has been shared on social media platform with a false claim that the event took place in Qatar. BOOM found that the footage does not show a real incident. The video was produced by a CGI artist who utilises software to craft animated visuals. In the beginning of the viral 17-second clip, a huge octopus is spotted making its way into a parking lot with a few cars around. The octopus then climbs onto a white SUV and uses its long tentacles to crush its roof. The video is being shared with a ca...
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An entire octopus was found by doctors in a man’s throat in Singapore after he was hospitalized. The man went to the hospital after he began vomiting when he ate a meal that contained the octopus in it. He had trouble swallowing and experienced discomfort in his throat. Doctors decided to give him a CT scan in order to determine the cause. When looking at the scans, they discovered a dense mass in his esophagus. The next step in treatment was to conduct an esophagogastroduodenoscopy, where an endoscope is used to take images with a small tube. The images showed an eight-legged octopus lodged ...
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Washington (AFP) - An octopus named Marshmallow lies at rest at the bottom of her tank, suddenly shifting in color from a pale white-green to brown and then orange, as her muscles twitch, suckers contract and her closed eyes shift around. This moment was captured in remarkable footage shot by scientists in Brazil, who published a new study in the journal iScience on Thursday that says the sophisticated cephalopods experience at least two different types of sleep. One of these states, which they dubbed "active sleep," is akin to rapid eye movement (REM) in mammals, birds and some reptiles -- ra...
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