From the Telegraph newspaper, comes this story about an octopus at a German aquarium, who’s bored and angry because it’s shut for Winter and there are no visitors. Apparently, he likes to juggle hermit crabs, rearranged the aquarium, and figured out how to short the lights with carefully aimed jets of water. A warning tale to aquarium owners everywhere- give your octopi plenty to keep them amused!  

Here’s another census/catalogue/portal of marine life. OBIS is the Ocean Biographic Information System and claims to be “a spatially and temporally interactive online archive for marine mammals, sea turtles and seabirds data”. It takes contributions from researchers all over the world and is based at Duke University in the US.