Bang! Oxford University students’ wonderful science magazine, has a great list of 10 reasons octopuses are awesome. Much more sophisticated and intelligent than most of us think, the animals have more going for them than just their amazing camouflage abilities, as seen above, and their brute strength, below.
More on the awesome octopus: An octopus leaps from the water to devour a crab, How an octopus goes camping and Octopus outsmarts a prawn.
Originally published by Cosmos as The awesome octopus
Bill Condie
Bill Condie is a science journalist based in Adelaide, Australia.
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