Are octopuses sentient?

For centuries, lobsters have been treated as seafood – hauled from the ocean, bound, stacked and boiled alive. Their suffering has been disregarded for convenience, their pain denied or dismissed in t

Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch

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WONDERS OF THE OCEAN

The juvenile colossal squid was filmed near the ...

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