octopuses

Plastic can last a long time in the ocean. A container fell off of a ship almost 30 years ago, containing thousands of Lego pieces. But, on the bright side, people can recover the plastic from the ocean. Here is the article link: Teenager finds ‘holy grail’ Lego octopus from 1997 spill off...

So recently I was wondering where the Platypus got its name, and found it meant flat-footed. Strangely, for something with a Latinate name, its scientific nomenclature is Ornithorhynchus Anatinus. This means roughly 'bird-snout duck-thing'. Turns out, it had two initial scientific names which...