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Rare, Beautiful Octopus Captured In Waters Off San Pedro
Argonaut shell via Shutterstock.com
An argonaut, a kind of octopus that you normally find in tropical or subtropical waters, made an appearance in the unseasonably balmy waters off the coast of San Pedro this week.Some fisherman accidentally scooped up to the female argonaut (also referred to as a paper nautilus) and brought it to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro this week, according to The Daily Breeze (h/t LA Observed).
It's a rare sight to find an argonaut and not because this octopus managed to make it all the way to San Pedro, aquarist Jeff Landesman told The Breeze: "Usually they're out in the boonies - far out in the ocean where nobody's fishing, nobody's swimming, nobody's looking. There's probably more about her that we don't know than we do know."
The argonaut is being held inside a 4-foot-tall tank in an aquatic nursery, but we're not sure how long she'll last there. The Breeze notes that argonauts don't typically last much longer than two weeks in captivity.
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