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A new study found that some members of an octopus species hunt cooperatively in groups with fish. Video shows octopuses punching their companion fish to keep them on task and contributing to the hunt.
The Niagara sighting. 60-metre (200 ft) creature allegedly seen afloat in 1813, depicted as octopus by a naturalist. Having accepted as fact that a colossal octopus was capable of dragging a ship down, Montfort made a more daring hypothesis.
Amphioctopus aegina, commonly referred to as the marbled octopus or the sandbird octopus, [2] is a bottom dwelling species residing in the coastal zone of the Indo-West Pacific. [ 3 ] Planktonic hatchlings and eggs are laid by females predominantly during the months of January and October, however they have been known to reproduce year-round.
This list of giant squid specimens and sightings from the 21st century is a comprehensive timeline of recent human encounters with members of the genus Architeuthis, popularly known as giant squid. It includes animals that were caught by fishermen, found washed ashore, recovered (in whole or in part) from sperm whales and other predatory ...
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Bigfin squids are a group of rarely seen cephalopods with a distinctive morphology.They are placed in the genus Magnapinna and family Magnapinnidae. [2] Although the family was described only from larval, paralarval, and juvenile specimens, numerous video observations of much larger squid with similar morphology are assumed to be adult specimens of the same family.
The argonauts (genus Argonauta, the only extant genus in the family Argonautidae) are a group of pelagic octopuses.They are also called paper nautili, referring to the paper-thin eggcase that females secrete; however, as octopuses, they are only distant relatives of true nautili.
One of the most recent sightings of the glass octopus occurred in 2021, when marine scientists from Boston University captured video of two glass octopuses while aboard the Falkor research vessel. [ 3 ] It has a mantle length up to 11 cm (4.3 in) and a total length up to 45 cm (18 in) in adults.