Eddy's Good News: One of the greatest exhibitions and four new species of octopus

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11 Mar 2024, 15:25

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio Anthems, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!

Be sure to listen each day between 2pm and 6pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Monday 11th March 2024

One of the greatest exhibitions I ever saw was the British Museum’s about life in North Western Europe around the time of Stonehenge. It was profoundly mind blowing and provided proof that all those thousands of years ago, people were coming from all over Europe to get together at Stonehenge and eat and drink at key times like the Spring Equinox, when they used to celebrate new year before Christianity changed the date. 

Now it turns out there’s a similar place in Northern Peru and it’s blowing the minds of archeologists. It’s a circular stone plaza with a gorgeous elevated view and human activity dating back farther than almost any other megalithic structure in the Western Hemisphere.  Its design and construction method are also entirely unique, and the discovery opens up a new prequel chapter in the rich history of human civilisation in the Andes Mountains and a long time ago: They found charcoal from fires burned there which they were able to carbon date to 100 years before the great Pyramids, same time as Stonehenge. That’s amazing. I look forward to their finding out more!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

I love octopuses. I’ve been on team octopus even before the brilliant documentary My Octopus Teacher came out. I even refuse to eat them because for me it’s like eating a cat or a dog in my mind, so this octopus related news story is warming my cockles.

The brilliant Schmidt Institute, the deep ocean research guys who’ve already provided us with some wonderful good news content, have on their latest submersible deep dive, had an absolute result, two miles down beneath the seas of Costa Rica.

Near a rocky outcrop called El Dorado Hill, the marine scientists identified FOUR new species of octopus, and a rarely-seen octopus hatchery, and documented their life around a series of hydrothermal vents with video and photographs in a zone where the light doesn’t reach. These amazing animals are living and thriving in a place with zero light and unimaginable pressure. They’ve called one of them The Dorado Octopus after its location. They also found a deep sea skate nursery, which, of course they’re calling Skate Park!

Credit: goodnewsnetwork.org