The Adam and Eve of the Octopus Family, page 1

Just as humans moved out of Africa, deep-sea octopuses swam north from Antarctica to populate the oceans of the world, say scientists involved in an ambitious international project to produce the first marine life census of the planet.

They collected tissue samples from Antarctic octopuses, and compared their genetic material with 30 other deep-sea species from around the globe. Their analysis showed they all had a common Antarctic ancestor, and are related to a species that still lives in the Southern Ocean.

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Octopus are such capable intelligent creatures and looking at the pic above, I can't help but see a 'face' in there. Weird.

Apparently, from reading further into the link, they moved out of the Antarctic 30 million years ago when the area started cooling off and created the ice sheet.

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