{"id":18559,"date":"2023-12-24T05:30:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18559"},"modified":"2025-04-05T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:10:13","slug":"turquets-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/turquets-octopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Turquet&#8217;s octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Turquet&#8217;s octopus<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a species of\u00a0benthic octopus with a\u00a0circumpolar Antarctic distribution.<\/li>\n<li>The species has a wide depth range, occurring from\u00a0shallow waters to 4,000 m deep.<\/li>\n<li>Appearance: It is characterised by the absence of a skin ridge round the body, and its nearly smooth skin, which is covered with low granular bumps.<\/li>\n<li>In the wild it is known to be preyed upon by Patagonian toothfish off South Georgia and Weddell seals off the South Shetland Islands.<\/li>\n<li>These cephalopods, inhabitants of the Southern Ocean, navigated the region when the ice sheet melted approximately 125,000 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation Status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Least concern (LC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about the West Antarctic ice sheet<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0Transantarctic Mountains divide the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.<\/li>\n<li>West Antarctica is approximately 97% ice-covered.<\/li>\n<li>The West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the\u00a0Bellingshausen, Weddell, Amundsen and Ross seas.<\/li>\n<li>There are principally three sectors of the ice sheet, which flow northeast-ward into the Weddell Sea, westward into the Ross Ice Shelf and northward into the Amundsen\/Bellingshausen seas.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>West Antarctica is surrounded by a strong\u00a0clockwise circumpolar circulation.<\/li>\n<li>These currents play a significant role in the\u00a0global thermohaline circulation, and are one of the reasons why Antarctica is so cold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the benthic zone?<\/h3>\n<p>The term benthic refers to anything associated with or occurring on the bottom of a body of water. The animals and plants that live on or in the bottom are known as the benthos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/octopus-dna-hides-big-secret-about-antarctic-doomsday-2479352-2023-12-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Octopus DNA hides big secret about Antarctic doomsday<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turquet&#8217;s octopus is a species of benthic octopus with a circumpolar Antarctic distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}