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delalluvia:
SYDNEY – Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_sc/as_australia_coconut_octopus

Front-Ranger:
Gives new meaning to Jack's saying, "three cracked [in]vertebrates" hehe!

I loved this:
"I was gobsmacked," said Finn, a research biologist at the museum

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