Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Star, wrote the song, Octopus’s Garden, for the Beatles 1969 album Abbey Road. The first verse goes:
I’d like to be/Under the sea/In an octopus’ garden/In the shade…
In a recent study, researchers describe finding an octopus’s garden beneath the sea about 80 miles from the coast of central California. It is believed to be the largest congregation of deep-sea octopuses ever discovered on Earth, where over 6,000, and possibly as many as 20,000, octopuses huddle around an extinct underwater volcano in the black, cold ocean depths, almost two miles below the surface.
The aggregation of octopus was discovered in 2018 and has remained something of a mystery. Octopuses are generally antisocial loners that would rather fight each other than live in close quarters.
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