Clever Octopus Vanishes Into Homemade Quicksand

Scientists during a University of Melbourne initial spotted this surprising function during a night dive in Port Philip Bay, Australia, in 2008

According to recently published research

“It indeed was a pocket

While it sounds elementary in theory, a routine of formulating a basement is utterly complex, requiring a octopus to use a arms to emanate a “chimney” to breathe by and indurate a walls of a cover with a covering of mucus. 

Or, as a scientists simply put it, “advanced sand-fluidisation

This subterranean burrowing is suspicion to be another form of insurance from predators, generally given a southern silt octopus is lacking a camouflage abilities

“This is another extraordinary instance of how octopuses continue to warn us with their comprehension — and ingenuity,” Katherine Harmon Courage, author of a book Octopus! The Most Mysterious Creature In a Sea told The Huffington Post in an email. “To find an octopus that builds a tradition subterranean basement in a silt (even if it’s done partially out of mucus!) is really cool.”

Watch a full disintegrating act below:

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