Sydney octopuses heading south as Tasmanian waters warm
ABC News, 14 Oct 2014.
A Tasmanian researcher has found octopuses from Sydney are reproducing in Tasmanian waters, writes ABC News. The common Sydney octopus was thought to have migrated south because of rising ocean temperatures. The creature was usually found between southern Queensland and southern New South Wales. Read the full story here.
The common Sydney octopus, Octopus tetricus, is usually more at home in waters off the NSW coast (Image: Rick Stuart-Smith, Reef Life Survey, RLS).
