Press Trust of India: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- one of the world's major ice sheets, could collapse if global warming continues, scientists have warned after analysing the genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus. An international team, led by Dr Jan Strugnell from La Trobe University, has analysed genes of the Turquet's octopus, which lives in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, the Molecular Ecology journal reported. Dr Strugnell said: "We're able to take advantage of much larger sample sizes than...
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