This week we’re asking whether octopuses dream of punching fish, finding out how the Amazon rainforest was born, wondering whether we’re heading for a fiery asteroid-generated doom, learning about how major corporations are turning their backs on deep-sea mining, slipping between the pages of an ancient book to find a butterfly, working out what an April fool can tell us about ecological modelling, and getting acquainted with a fearsome new dinosaur.

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Brunk et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109081

Carvalho et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1969

Gianechini et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2020.1877151

de Souza Medeiros et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102223

Warren et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13591

Matt Hayes’ guide for iRecord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFbLiPV2UaY

Music credit: Blippy Trance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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