When Sailing Monterey Bay You Sail Over 20,000 Octopuses
Turns out the Beatles were on the right track! There really is an octopus’s garden in the sea. Well, a nursery.… If you’ve sailed south to Monterey Bay or beyond, you might be interested to know that you sailed above the recent scientific discovery of the world’s largest octopus nursery.
According to a story in The Optimist Daily, new underwater mapping technology helped scientists discover an estimated 20,000 pearl octopuses who live near thermal conditions on the floor of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary.
The octopuses are pale purple, roughly grapefruit-sized, and not especially known for sociability. The octopuses were found on roughly 6.2 acres of seafloor after scientists counted about 6,000 in the area and extrapolated the rest.
What else is living on the floor of our vast oceans?
