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You make like a statue. After a moment, the octopus climbs out of the shell. Its body is the size of your thumb, its arms perhaps three times that. As it moves onto the sand, it turns a matching ...

A horizontal a slice at the base of the arms (labeled as A) showing the oral INCs (labeled as O) converging and crossing.

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An octopus can squeeze through a hole about the size of its eyeball and transform its body shape almost without limits.

Two pairs join to make a group of 4. They stand back to back to make octopus body and then wriggle and wave their arms high, low and all around like long, wriggling tentacles. Each group creates ...

An octopus rides on a shark, or, the worlds first sharktopus. Scientists have been left amused after spotting an octopus hitchhiking during its journey, albeit with an unlikely marine friend.