Bill to ban octopus farming placed in U.S. Senate

Remember Paul the Octopus? Yeah, the one who became a sensation during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with his reported “ability” to predict the winners of football matches involving the country he was born and lived in, Germany. At the World Cup, Paul predicted, correctly, the results of all seven matches involving the German team and of the final between Spain and The Netherlands. (For those who did not know, Spain won...

Life in the Ocean

Today is World Aquatic Animal Day, created in 2020 by the folks at Animal Law Clinic at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, USA, to draw attention to the importance of aquatic animals to our societies and ecosystems. Presenting some images of aquatic animal species. World Aquatic Animal Day is meant to raise global awareness so that humans come together to create policies, laws, education, and outreach that will help to protect these...