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ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality. I came to meet Athena, the aquarium’s forty-pound, five-foot-long, two-and-a-half-year-old giant Pacific octopus. For me, it was a momentous occasion. I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange. Here is someone who, even if she grows to one hundred pounds and stretches more than eight feet long, could still squeeze her boneless body through an opening the size of an orange; an animal wh...
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Galapagos beneath the Surface Far more than I could have imagined “…both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhere near to that great fact, that mystery of mysteries –the appearance of the new beings on this earth…”. Possibly Charles Darwin’s most famous quote about the unique character of the wildlife he witnessed in his visit to the Galapagos Islands in 1835. Gallery 1 here Report by Jonathan R. Green Plunging into these crystal clear blue waters for the first time off black rock cliffs and boulder slopes, I could see how Darwin might be impressed with the diversity o...