The octopus & the coconut.

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Scientists recently discovered an octopus near Indonesia that uses coconut shells as shelter--the first evidence of toot use by an invertebrate animal. Researchers filmed the veined octopus, or Amphioctopus rnarginatus, grabbing up halved coconut shells from the ocean floor, emptying them out, dragging them to another location, and reassembling two half-shells to make a hideout. "It's that collecting it to use it tater that is unusual," Julian Finn, a scientist at Museum Victoria in Melbourne...