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BIOL 101: Fundamentals of Biology: Home

This Guide Will Help You:

  • Accurately identify credible internet sources.
  • Apply guiding principles to evaluate the reliability of a website’s information and determine reliable and unreliable information sources.

 

Lab #5

Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus - Photo by Lyle Zapato
 
 
The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato. This fictitious endangered species of cephalopod was purportedly able to live both on land and in water, and was said to live in the Olympic National Forest and nearby rivers, spawning in water where its eggs are laid. Its major predator was said to be the Sasquatch.