Who run the world? Girls. Especially when you’re today’s #CephOfTheDay, the blanket octopus!
The females of this species are stunningly beautiful and 10,000 times larger than the males! These octos also rip off the tentacles of Portugese Man O'war for defense 🤯
Scientists didn’t discover a single male Blanket octopus until 2002 because they were looking at the wrong magnitude. Females can be up to 40,000 times more massive than males; the largest gender size discrepancy in the animal kingdom.
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