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Perth boy Rehan Somaweera has become one of Australia’s youngest authors of a scientific paper By Evelyn Manfield Source:-www.abc.net.au A father and son bonding over their love for snorkeling has lead to 10-year-old Rehan Somaweera becoming one of the youngest people in Australia to author a published scientific paper. Key points: Rehan Somaweera discovered an interesting unknown fact about the WA common octopus  He and his dad confirmed the discovery by recording what they saw across four different reefs His findings were published in a CSIRO journal and he now dreams of being a scientist  Whenever the sun is shining, Rehan and his dad Ru put on their wetsuits and flippers and jump in the sparkling blue water at Perth’s Mettams Pool. It was on one of these underwater adventures that year five student Rehan fell hook, line and sinker for the West Australian common octopus because of its “weird skin” and eight tentacles.  ...