Behind the scenes at the Museum's Darwin Centre, the Spirit Collection houses 27 kilometres of shelves filled with animal specimens. Amongst them are several specimens collected by English naturalist ...

This places them in the deep-sea cirrate octopus group, which is one of the two main divisions of octopuses. The other division is the incirrate octopuses, which live in shallower waters and do not ...

Brenda Shaughnessy teaches at Rutgers University-Newark. She most recently published “[The Octopus Museum](https://www.amazon.com/Octopus-Museum-Poems-Brenda ...