Up to 25 curled octopuses, which grow to a length of 50cm, were seen three nights in a row at New Quay beach in Ceredigion in west Wales. Some of the wayward cephalopods were later found dead, washed up on the beach. Alien intelligence: the extraordinary minds of octopuses and other cephalopods Read more“It was a bit like an End Of Days scenario,” he told the BBC. He said he had tried to return the crawling creatures back to the sea where possible. “It could simply be injuries sustained by the rough weather itself or there could be a sensitivity to a change in atmospheric pressure.”

Source: The Guardian October 30, 2017 03:45 UTC