Originally published at: Adorable new octopus species discovered in "uninhabitable" deep-sea nursery | Boing Boing
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I’d like to be,
Under the Sea,
In an octopuses garden,
With you.
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“Tentacles…why’d it have to be tentacles?”
– Indiana Davy Jones.
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“cold hydrothermal vent”
Uhh… that sure seems like an oxymoron. Google is being useless, so I can’t tell if this is like an inactive volcano (in that it used to be a hydrothermal vent, but isn’t, anymore) or it’s a hydrothermal vent that has a lower-than-usual temperature (but is still warm), or… something else entirely.
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It is like a cold-dry-hydrothermal vent; only wetter.
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i, for one, welcome our octopodian overlords!
octopuses are cool! (especially when brought up in “cold hydrothermal vents” very deep in the ocean.)
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As the embedded video covers:
The vents are extinct volcanos. They are likely formed when new ocean crust is made and that happens primarily at mid-ocean ridges… They move away from the ridge as they age and get a little bit cooler.
…they allow water to go in one place, heat up in the Earth’s crust, and come out warmed in another place.
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FTFY.
is it ■■■■■?
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Sopping.
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I’m just wondering why the scientists thought that many octopuses would gather together to lay in an unsustainable area.
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