A study of octopus DNA may have solved an enduring mystery about when the rapidly melting West Antarctic ice sheet last collapsed, unlocking valuable information about how much future sea levels may ...
(CN) — A genetic analysis of the Antarctic octopus purports to show that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed roughly 120,000 years ago, during the last interglacial. Perhaps alarmingly, ...
The genetic investigation of a specific octopus species has led scientists to this worrying prediction for Antarctica. Looking for hints about the evolution of the continent's ice sheet, a team led by ...
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