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Naoto Shinkai / Shutterstock The giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) is the largest species in the world, weighing as much as 150 pounds and measuring up to 15 feet long. It's also known ...

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The Mimic Octopus has evolved this skill over thousands of years as a defense mechanism. By imitating dangerous creatures, it confuses predators, making them think it is too risky to attack.

That wasn’t the case for this octopus. In 2023, scientists spotted an eight-armed cephalopod riding on a 10-foot mako shark—and their video of the bizarre journey is now available to view.

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The footage, shot by a diver in April 2015, shows the small octopus carrying two halves of a coconut in its 'arms' and using its other tentacles like legs to walk along the ocean floor.

It’s not uncommon, for example, to see an octopus using several arms to move itself across the ocean floor while cracking open a shell with two others. Each arm can also react independently to ...

The giant Pacific octopus was spotted by an Ocean Networks Canada video camera on the sea floor off Vancouver Island's west coast, clinging to rocks and coral buffeted by the currents early Wednesday.