Category: MBL in the News

Inky the Octopus Enthralls the World With His Escape | NPR-WBUR

Published on April 29, 2016 by Diana Kenney

Inky the Octopus Enthralls the World With His Escape | NPR-WBUR

The clever escape of Inky the octopus from a tank at the New Zealand National Aquarium had the world wondering about the intelligence of this 8-tentacled creature. MBL scientist Roger Hanlon, an expert on octopuses and other celphalopods, weighed in Inky’s disappearing act on NPR-WBUR. Source: WBUR’s Here and Now program, April 14, 2016

T-Shirt Weather in the Arctic | The New York Times

Published on March 23, 2016 by Denise Kergo

T-Shirt Weather in the Arctic | The New York Times

The Arctic is warming faster than any other place in the world, write Mark Urban of the University of Connecticut and Linda Deegan of the MBL’s Ecosystem Center in The New York Times: We crested the northern rim of Alaska’s Brooks Range, and from the windows of our truck looked out across the undulating foothills

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