An army of octopus have been released in Italian waters to tackle a destructive influx of blue crabs. The invasive crustaceans are thought to have been accidentally introduced to the Adriatic coast ...

Italy has come up with a new weapon in its war against an invasive species of crab – an army of voracious octopuses. Tens of thousands of octopuses are being released at sea to take on blue crabs, ...

Italy is fighting an invasive crab species with a weapon that sounds almost too strange to be true. The country has released 130,000 baby octopuses in the Adriatic under a project named Octo-Blu. The ...

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