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A Peek Inside MBL’s “Cephalopod Empire” | Science Friday

Published on June 15, 2018
A Peek Inside MBL's "Cephalopod Empire"  | Science Friday
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Video Produced by Luke Groskin
Article by Johanna Mayer

Bret Grasse lovingly calls the Cephalopod Operations division at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts the “cephalopod empire.” The lab houses roughly 2,000 to 3,000 cephalopods—likely the largest collection of cephalopods of any research laboratory. But it might not be that way for long, if Grasse and MBL have their way. They hopes that one day, these creatures will be as ubiquitous in labs as mice or fruit flies. … Take a peek inside the [MBL], and meet the five candidate species that could be making their way to a lab near you someday soon. Read more …

Source: Cephalopod, Inc. | Science Friday

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