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Here's the never-before-seen 'octopus city' scientists recently discovered

Sep 21, 2017, 19:02 IST

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A group of scientists discovered an underwater "octopus city" off the coast of Australia in Jervis Bay, and they've named it "Octlantis."

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This discovery of octopuses interacting in a high-density den challenges scientists' previously held belief that octopuses are solitary and antisocial creatures.

Photographs courtesy of Peter Godfrey-Smith. Video courtesy of David Scheel et al.

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