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Re:Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself by onlypassingthru on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:54PM (#48507292)
I've heard that the biggest limiting factor in octopus ocean domination is their short lifespans. Tool use, building structures, communication, facial recognition, multiple brains, it's all there.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/octopuses-keep-surprising-us-...

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Re:Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself by SJC_Hacker on Saturday June 13, 2026 @09:19AM (#48517059)
Female octopi also die reproducing. Knowledge cannot be passed from one generation to the next. Everything they know is either instinctual or learned.
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