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We’ve just witnessed one of the dirtiest fights to ever take place in front of our eyes, with two notable figures getting personal and willing to get their limbs deep in the mud to take down their opponents in a spectacle we just could not look away from.
No, we’re not talking about John Fetterman’s victorious Senate campaign of Mehmet Oz—we’re talking about octopuses that have been seen throwing objects at each other.
In a study published November 9 in the journal PLOS ONE, the authors recorded octopuses that appeared to intentionally throw things like silt and shells at each other on camera for the first time ever. In fact, it’s the first time that throwing behavior has ever been observed in the creatures.
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