This perfect gradient from soft to hard tissue is seen almost nowhere else in nature, and prevents the beak from being easily torn loose without a skeleton to connect with.
This weird picture (at first, I thought the octopus had a white cream mantle!) was taken by Nick William in New Orleans:
“I was walking home around 8 p.m. last night and thought, oh no someone didn’t clean up after their dog, only to realize it was a real octopus. I didn’t want to touch that slimy thing,”.
The weird part is, he was in Dauphin St, New Orleans when this happened. And if you have a look at the map (which I did), you begin to wonder: what the heck did the octopus do on Dauphin St ???
