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    Cool octopus video

    link to video from this article about octo's "walking" on 2 legs -
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._nm/octopus_dc

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    very cool...

    Quote Originally Posted by Damselfish
    link to video from this article about octo's "walking" on 2 legs -
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._nm/octopus_dc
    The story says, "The discovery, published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, discredits theories that walking requires hard bones and skeletal muscle, as octopuses have neither...."

    Duh - they're in the water. On land they'd fall apart.

    Still a cool vid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mo2vation
    The story says, "The discovery, published in Friday's issue of the journal Science, discredits theories that walking requires hard bones and skeletal muscle, as octopuses have neither...."

    Duh - they're in the water. On land they'd fall apart.

    Still a cool vid.

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    hmmm, how fast did you jump to that conclusion? Think they may have put some more thought to it than the time it took you to respond to the original post and that the water maybe isn't the key?

    Read the journal first, it's not a fly by night publication.

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    OK. Equilbrium, balance and motor skills on dry land are a very different skill set than in the water.

    No offense to squiddly, but he is Carl Lewis.

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    Ken's conclusion is a logical one; i kind of thought the same.
    also, the article doesn't provide a link to the journal.

    i'd love to read it, Chaseh, if you have a link handy
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    Thanks for giving us the "leg up" on this one!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mo2vation
    OK. Equilbrium, balance and motor skills on dry land are a very different skill set than in the water.
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    I have never had a problem with neutral bouyancy on land

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    Very cool. I would love to see one do this.
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    So which one was doing the "coconut" impersonation - the "walnut" sized octopus, or the "apple" sized one?

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    Yes, I saw the video clip on the news this morning. Looked pretty cool...you suppose it'll evolve into a monkey? ;-)

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