While carrying out some maintenance work off the Canadian coast in the northern Pacific Ocean, scientists aboard the ocean research vessel Nautilus found themselves squaring off with a small octopus.
As you can see, the octopus does not want to let the robotic arm get the rope ! Note that the team assured no tentacle were armed during the “struggle”.
During sex, the male of most octopus species stays as far away from the female’s mouth as possible to avoid becoming a post-coital snack. Or so scientists thought. A detailed study from a team at the University of California, Berkley, on the larger Pacific striped octopus shows that a couple will mate beak to beak and even eat side by side, too (most octopi live alone). Read more here.
