Probably one of the best internet inventions for communication has been the advent of the smilies to help give the tone of our short (I do TRY - often unsuccessfully - to make mine short ), written communications
The more I read (especially the latest and greatest on the ocean), the more it is clear that there are no absolutes and pretty much every statement needs to be qualified. Until the last couple of years, it was believed that ALL octopuses had only one set of offspring and then died. @Neogonodactylus and @Thales have proven this is not the case with at least 2 (related) species. You will also see some pretty crazy things written that were never "true" and simply do not exist but keep being propagated by people claiming to have studied them (the most recent - chapping my hide - is the totally incorrect statement by a journalist who had a column (followed by a book) in a once venerable magazine stating that octopuses have two siphons ). Soooo, forgive me if I get on a soap box when I try to guide from what I think I know (ever changing).
The more I read (especially the latest and greatest on the ocean), the more it is clear that there are no absolutes and pretty much every statement needs to be qualified. Until the last couple of years, it was believed that ALL octopuses had only one set of offspring and then died. @Neogonodactylus and @Thales have proven this is not the case with at least 2 (related) species. You will also see some pretty crazy things written that were never "true" and simply do not exist but keep being propagated by people claiming to have studied them (the most recent - chapping my hide - is the totally incorrect statement by a journalist who had a column (followed by a book) in a once venerable magazine stating that octopuses have two siphons ). Soooo, forgive me if I get on a soap box when I try to guide from what I think I know (ever changing).