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🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: Researchers dubbed one of the new towns Octlantis.

Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsUnderneath the waves lies a lost city, home to untold riches and guarded jealously by the strange creatures who make their homes within its confines. Well, the riches are all shellfish, but "Octlantis," a newly discovered settlement inhabited by around a dozen common Sydney octopuses, does have some strange residents.Octopuses were once considered solitary creatures, thought to roam the depths alone, meeting only to mate.

Nevertheless, living in a community could offer some important benefits for tentacled city-slickers. As study co-author Peter Godfrey-Smith writes in his book on octopus intelligenceResidents of Octopolis are often harried by sharks, fish and other predators when they ventured out into the open waters. Their dens, however, seemed to provide them safe haven.

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