A Taiwanese-Canadian research project on intelligent cephalopods produced worrying results.
(CN) — Among the incredible quantity of animal life in the ocean, cephalopods — a category that includes squids, octopuses and cuttlefish — are some of the brainiest. But ocean acidification, an often overlooked effect of man-made climate change, could change that fact within decades, according to an ongoing scientific study.Garett Allen, an assistant professor at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada, called the study’s findings “a real surprise” that could foretell a grave threat to the long-term survival of the Earth’s most intelligent invertebrate animals.
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