Please understand a donation is a gift and does not confer membership or license to audiobooks. They can sense light with their arms! Sounds like the classic red herring story, the truth about that continent will, for most, be stranger than fiction. The giant Pacific octopus is considered the largest octopus species in the world and inhabits the northern Pacific Ocean off the United States up to Alaska and around Japan. Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe, who some consider the father of the panspermia theory, was one of the researchers of this study. When it comes down to it, octopuses are a really smart ball of muscles and neurons. One wonders if even the 1290 Expulsion affected the Phoenecian Navy and their primary port of Lon-Don. The Antarctic Octopus is like all squids and octopuses in this way. Loved the sci-fi story. Lets Save the Weird Ones. People are joking about it being intelligent by infecting right wing activity and not leftists. Octopuses in Antarctica survive subzero temperatures because of blue pigment in their blood, a new study finds. Endlessly fascinating. Oh, all those stories about Antarctica are fake, so Im not going to pay any attention to anything anybody says about it. A propaganda maneuver. (See the following, for example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-antarctica-idUSBRE92611L20130307). Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This section was looking for documents on witchcraft, the occult, and the supernatural. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. Researchers aim to map genome of WAs distinctive kangaroo paw, opening door (sic) to new colours This octopus wont just deposit his sperm, he will break off his mating arm and give it to the female so she can fertilize her eggs. Fine. Where do they keep these other neurons that amount to 60% of their brainpower? Everything You Need To Know About An Octopus Brain! Although given todays values, you might want a peak at 5min20 seconds in. So what is really going on in this Antarctica narrative? Or maybe thats exactly what is needed. Many species of octopus can alter their appearance, usually to avoid larger predators, Dr. Padalka explained. If arms are moving together, the big brain is at work making that happen. But how much ocean are we willing to sacrifice? mRNA is likely modified before translation eins? The tank is another metaphor for the story itself being distributed worldwide; taking on a life of its own. Many of her specimens had short, stubby arms and had lived primarily in the icy-cold water column near, rather than on the ground near piping-hot vents. Is 14-legged killer squid found TWO MILES beneath Antarctica being weaponised by Putin? Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet. She has a Masters degree in marine science from the University of Auckland and throughout her career has worked on multiple international marine conservation projects as an environmental consultant. As Janet Voight, a curator at The Field Museum in Chicago, explained to me this summer, deep-sea octopuses have little need for color or camouflage. WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-03/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-kangaroo-paw/12721962 Martial arts moves can seem magical, but maybe they just display a mastery of physics. Decades back, the SF magazine Analog published a science-fact article entitled The Cambrian Life Ship. In it, the author inferred all the reasons for Earth to have gotten a one-time dump of biological material. He made a really good (hypothetical, but science-based) case that Earth was seeded in the distant past, Just to add to your thoughts, Ive always heard mushroom spores can remain viable in space and travel via meteors or even just free floating, and so fungi may have had an extra-terrestrial origin. One can go on Youtube and look at any number of videos of octopus solving complex puzzles, or even watching other octopus solving complex puzzles, and then doing the same task themselves. How Octopuses Are Portrayed In Science Fiction!Continue, The movie that captured our hearts at a time when we needed it most, My Octopus Teacher was released to the world on September 4, 2020. Ok, I can buy the intelligence part. Follow Shannon Hall on Twitter @ShannonWHall. A new conservation strategy has a different focus. The 33-foot-long man-eater also boasts extraordinary camouflage that helped it stalk the researchers. Just as the eight man team neared the lake all communication with the outside world mysteriously ceased. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. They normally fly in and out pretty quickly. For that purpose, Ahnenerbe, who was integrated into the SS at about 1940, fulfilled numerous missions all over the world to search for rare relics, mythical places and ancient texts. Every article you read on Anomalien is made possible thanks to the generous donations of our supporters. A wink at Freemasonry, the Russians re weaponizing. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. This gallery contains six poisonous Antarctic octopuses, including one of the new species, pictured above. 10 L of extract and 10 L of H 2 O, as control, was then added to their respectively labelled tubes and immediately placed on a . From the way it adapted each time we changed our tactics, we became convinced it is at least as intelligent as an average human, Dr. Padalka revealed. Dr Padalka claims that during this time, he and his colleagues were fighting for their lives in the lost world deep beneath the earths surface. But Organism 46-B has another trick up its sleeve. It does not store any personal data. I know octopuses are sometimes portrayed as scary monsters, but how scary can an octopus really be when its the size of a paper clip? Octopus arms are thicker near the base, getting smaller and eventually tapering off at the ends. After our sole female researcher chopped off one of the arms with an ax, the severed limb yanked the weapon out of her hands, recalled the scientist. So getting our monster through the borehole would not be problematic. Tragically, my colleague and life-long friend Dr. Vindogradov was killed this way. I was also thinking: what if this was a juvenile creature, with a parent somewhere that is much larger. Does anyone else think these trolled stories (of which the illustrious president is one of the biggest trolls on the planet) are traps for various knuckleheads (KillBates especially) to fall into and look stupid enough to make trolls look smart? Like Tesla has self-driving cars, these octopus arms come programmed to search for snacks! The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". Any life forms that we find are likely to be unique on Earth, Sergey Bulat, the projects Chief Scientist said on Russian TV as the geologists were drilling down. Well guess what the 7 arm octo does the same!7 The 7-arm Octopus participates in the largest migration on earth in biomass and number of animals participating. Fast forward to an article again in Ancient Origins from 3/21/16: titled Stash of Books from the Witch Library of Nazi Chief Himmler Found in Prague The ice-cold temperatures in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica range between 28.8 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 1.8 degrees Celsius) to 35.6 degrees F (2 degrees C). New DNA analysis shows that two distinct populations of this. Weienthurm Tourism. Scientists have uncovered the Roman recipe for self-repairing cementwhich could massively reduce the carbon footprint of the material today. Anyone with cursory knowledge of California gang culture knows that Piru is Swahili for blood. So this poor lady is literally drowning in the Lake of Blood. Or maybe its just a mashup of John W. Campbells novella Who Goes There circa 1938 (the shape shifting Thing of Outpost 31), Fantastic Voyage circa 1966 (remember Rachel Welch?) Did the wascally wussian ask the creature if it desired to be weaponized? Thankfully, they'll all miss. Extra-tiny! Octopuses are incredibly dexterous. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. I think of the 39 year old writer Jas Waters who died of (hanging) suicide on June 12, as the SpaceX Starlink launch took place from Launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on the same day. This documentary took us into a patch of kelp forest where a Common Octopus let a human into her world. A research expedition to Antarctica to study the region's octopus life has returned with descriptions of four new species, and the first known sub-zero venoms. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Can you picture this octopus growing up to 11 feet (3.5m) and weighing in at 165 pounds (75kg) UMWHAT? It is situated on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite Neuwied, approximately 12 km northwest of Koblenz. I have never heard of a President or Prime Minister, EVER, attending some such occasion for SO long. Cephalopod skin is the kind of thing you read about in science fiction books. Ok fine, thats some nice artistic skill. Even for researchers accustomed to unfamiliar sights, the white octopus and other unusual creatures were enough to give them pause. Pareledone charcoti, a shallow-water species of octopus from the Antarctic, uses an unique strategy to transport oxygen in its blood, says a new study. Although the Antarctic octopus is far more adept at producing oxygen in cold waters than its warm-water counterparts, these animals actually thrive when the water is a balmy 50 degrees F (10 degrees C), rather than at 32 degrees F (0 degrees C), which is typical in the Southern Oceans lowest latitudes. His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science". You can see it used to discredit/misdirect regarding a number of topics somebody doesnt want the public looking into (UFOs are a case a point). The discovery of such unusual life in Lake Vostok was the most important scientific breakthrough in decades, but we were ordered not to divulge it because of Mr. Putins sinister scheme, the whistleblowing geologist told the Swiss. Her interviews contain information about various races of ETs who live inside the earth in various places, with portals that allow them to enter the surface of the planet. If we were not all Ph.Ds, I fear it would have in the end outwitted us.. The octopus, found at 2,394 meters below sea level (nearly a mile and a half down), of course, isn't the first deep-seaor the first vent-dwellingoctopus to be discovered. The geologists expected to be honored internationally for their amazing find. The arms of Organism 46-B demonstrated a chilling knack for operating autonomously. I can even buy the "battle with the evil octopus" idea, and even that it deliberately smashed their radio. All the advantages intrigue me as they do most people that wow, that would be neat to be able to,. 2023 Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc. Recent expeditions to Antarctic seafloor vents have yielded haunting new images of hairy-bellied yeti crabs, a seven-armed starfish and an eerily pale octopusits curling arms encased in almost translucent skin. NY 10036. Antarctic octopus, Benthoctopus rigbyae, photographed on the sea floor at 500 m depth during the #SOAntEco cruise on board RRS James Clark Ross. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Russian Scientist Claims Team Battled Creature Under AntarcticIce. To cope, Antarctic octopuses use a copper-based protein called haemocyanin. But theres still much to learn from the distant galaxies it glimpses. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. But the shape-shifting abilities of Organism 46-B sound almost diabolical. The Mining Industry's Next Frontier Is Deep, Deep Under the Sea. Yet I am intrigued if for no other reason than H. P. Lovecraft. I can even buy the shape-shifting into a form looking like a scuba-diver, because octopus are masters of camouflaging themselves to look like something else, from sea snakes to coral reefs or a rock. Octopuses are extraordinarily intelligent, able to negotiate mazes, use tools and even build structures with Legos. Arms and suckers make up most of an octopuss squishy body and are extremely important body parts. Indeed, Nexus magazine ran a series about this allegation many years ago. in Mount Ziel,Australia.Shame that Admiral Byrds personal notes were confiscated.Highly intelligent life can shape-shift rendering it je ne sais quoi, maybe be cause it is antipodean to the bermuda triangle Must be code for something else. Having known more than my share of brilliant plebes and ignoramus brainiacs, I give this one a down vote with one caveat: there are many aspects of this that are crazy and true. If it is that intelligent, would it not object to being used in such a manner by what it considered a food source? By the time the closest scientist realized what it was, it had grabbed him and torn him to bits.. We are definitely NOT alone. Just as the eight man team neared the lake all communication with the outside world mysteriously ceased. Teeny weeny! The octopus doesn't have a real name yet and is going by the temporary moniker, Parledone species 1. He tread water wearing a blissful smile as the organism approached him. Therefore, the water in the sub-glacial lake would be pressurized to the 12,000 feet of difference between the lake and the ice-surface. "The back four tentacles sort of shuffle like the treads of a tank, while the front four feel in front of the octopus," Jon Copley, of the University of Southampton's National Oceanography Center and co-author on the new paper, told National Geographic. lolol. that electromachines Thanks for reading Scientific American. Is THAT what really drew all those world leaders? https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29723/you-can-buy-paul-allens-octopus-arguably-the-worlds-most-incredible-yacht matched the colors and pattern perfectly? Explore our digital archive back to 1845, including articles by more than 150 Nobel Prize winners. 2017 . We encountered Organism 46-B on day one as we were conducting a preliminary dive in our low-temperature wetsuits, he recounts. 2001; Xavier et al. I wonder if Buzz was on Paul Allenss Octopus ? Yupjust casually hanging hanging out from freezing to warm water temperatures 6 Theyre in the same family as the blanket octopus (Argonautoidea) remember how the blanket octopus uses the stinging tentacles of the man-o-war like nunchucks against predators? The expedition was planned with the personal involvement of the then head of the naval staff, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and then Secretary of the Navy John Forrestal. They catch their prey with their tentacles and use their venom to kill them, much like snakes. Also if youve gotta better nickname for the banded string arm, wed like to hear it!To us the fact that their mantle is so spaghetti like is pretty wild considering it constrains all their squishy vulnerable organs (hearts, stomach, gills, etc). So yea, color me (extremely) skeptical on this one. We cant talk about octopus arms without mentioning a very special arm that only males have to keep the octopus life cycle going. Wildly enough, this special arm develops in an inconspicuous sack/pouch under their right eye. In 1935, the SS created a special section called H ( H-Sonderkommando, so named for the first letter of the German word Hexe, meaning witch). To be sure, I think this story has all the distinct "odor" of one of those stories that occasionally comes along that has been deliberately planted on the internet, perhaps to have a bit of fun, or perhaps just to track to see where it travels in cyber space, and who picks it up and talks about it. Let us set the record straight here and now: Octopuses have 8 ARMS and ZERO tentacles. And the lack of humor, introspection or humility? Its a little bit of an anti-climax, geologist Dr. David L. Meckenroy of the U.K. said on TV at the time. To become a paid member, visit member registration. Antarctic Octopuses move by jet propulsion. This is among the highest levels ever reported. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Are Zombie Bees Infiltrating Your Neighborhood? This arm is specialized with grooves to store sperm, ready to transfer it to the female when mating. It disabled our radio, which we later learned to our alarm, was intentional.. The Antarctic octopus Pareledone charcoti had the highest concentration of haemocyanin in its blood - at least 40% more compared to the other species, and ranked amongst the highest levels . This really really needs to be a sequel to The Thing, and then Quatti Mates The Thing, Then Sons and Daughters of Quatti. Subs, divers and QUATTUOROPUS, oh my! Pair this with their suckers ability to taste and smell what they touch and it starts to make sense why two-thirds of an octopus brainpower is located in their arms. Antarctic octopus venom works at temperatures that would stop other venoms in their tracks, said biochemist Bryan Fry of the University of Melbourne, who led the expedition. . Antarctic octopuses eat a wide variety of animals, from clams to fish. The thing that makes it unbelievable to me, in addition to the tank thing, is how the divers spent 5 days underwater. In such frigid conditions, animals have a harder time transporting oxygen throughout their bodies and therefore delivering it to tissues. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". The modern Nazis also wanted it & attempted to claim it for their own. DNA sequence predicts the mRNA sequence. So while the brain isnt quite sure where the arms are in space, the arms know where each other are and this allows the arms to coordinate during actions like crawling.. The team that discovered the new Antarctic sea-vent octopus was able to film the new eight-armed bottom-dweller on the go. Or, of a visit of something from Antarctica). As for the rest of it. Live Science is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. WARNING: this one is so strange that I think it's safe to say that I'm somewhere between 99 and 100% skeptical of it, but even then, it's worth passing along and filing away in your "Strange Stuff and Rumors about Antarctica" file. WIRED may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. My name is Paul the Octopus and I approve this message. The article didnt specify how deep into the lake the dive was, only how far below the ice. There are some fantastic octopus books for kids! White octopus and i approve this message and have not been classified into a patch of forest. Eat a wide variety of animals, from clams to fish the Russians re.. Allegation many years ago is Paul the octopus life cycle going an octopuss squishy body and extremely. 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