In what I’m hoping will become a weekly feature right along with Free Music Monday, I’ve decided that every Sunday I need to bring you some piece of news from the preceding week (although it would be much cooler if I could bring you news from the upcoming week — I’ll get to working on that) that in some way, shape, or form is ‘Bad News’.
Today’s bad news? Well… it seems that Octopuses (/Octopi) have learned how to walk on two tentacles. (There are cool videos on the other end of that link)
Defying the notion that bipedal motion requires muscles attached to a rigid skeleton, the octopuses used the strong, flexible muscles in their back arms to walk across the seabed when pursued by camera-wielding biologists.
The two species have slightly different strategies. Octopus marginatus from Indonesia wraps itself into a ball while walking, perhaps to imitate a coconut rolling with the current.
…a coconut rolling with the current? Are they suggesting that coconuts migrate? That, too, could be bad news.