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Dumbo Octopus have been discovered 7km deep: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-a-dumbo-octopus.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-a-dumbo-octopus
by hermitcrab 1y ago
Dumbo Octopus have been discovered 7km deep:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-a-dumbo-octopus.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-a-dumbo-octopus.html
Building a technological civilization underwater would be quite a challenge though!
- v3ss0n 1y agoSome already started to civilize. But what if theirs longer living octopi ancestors existed back in Cambrian period and had a functional civilization ? we will never know. Looking at what they are building at Octopolis and Octlantis they had reached what human did 200k years ago.
- aa-jv 1y agoThere has also been an 'octopus nursery' (social behaviour) discovered in the deep sea, which sort of re-wrote the rules on the 'solitary octopus' hypothesis: https://schmidtocean.org/scientists-discover-new-deep-sea-octopus-nurseries-in-costa-rica/ https://schmidtocean.org/scientists-discover-new-deep-sea-oc... I think there is a lot more to be learned about these wonderful creatures, and I avidly await all such discoveries ..