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The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by a humor writer under the pseudonym Lyle Zapato. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since its creation, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus website has been commonly referenced in Internet literacy classes in schools and has been used in multiple studies demonstrating children's gullibility ...
Secrets of the Octopus is a nature documentary television series that depicts a variety of octopus species in a variety of habitats. The first episode aired April 21, 2024, on National Geographic , with all three episodes being released the following day on Disney+ and Hulu to celebrate Earth Day .
Some crows have even figured out how to use sticks to extract insects from tree bark or fashion hooks from twigs to fish out food from hard-to-reach places. ... National Geographic describes this ...
Octopus Cuvier, 1798 (99 species) Paroctopus Naef, 1923 (3 species) Pinnoctopus d'Orbigny, 1845 (2 species) Pteroctopus P. Fischer, 1882 (6 species) Robsonella Adam, 1938 (2 species) Scaeurgus Troschel, 1857 (5 species) Teretoctopus Robson, 1929 (2 species) Thaumoctopus Norman & Hochberg, 2005 (monotypic) Wunderpus Hochberg, Norman & Finn, 2006 ...
The oldest samples dated to the 1990s, but when sequenced, their genes provided what was essentially a detailed family tree going back millions of years. Octopus family tree.
Grimpoteuthis [1] is a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopi. [2] The name "dumbo" originates from their resemblance to the title character of Disney's 1941 film Dumbo, having two prominent ear-like fins which extend from the mantle above each eye.
Didierea madagascariensis, commonly known as the octopus tree, [2] is a species of Didiereaceae endemic to the spiny thickets of southwestern Madagascar. [3] It was first described scientifically by the French botanist Henri Ernest Baillon in 1880 [ 4 ] and is the type species of the genus Didierea .
Amphioctopus marginatus is a species of octopus located in the family Octopodidae, genus Amphioctopus. The species was first described in 1964 by Japanese malacologist Iwao Taki as Octopus marginatus, and synonymously as Amphioctopus marginatus. In 1976, Z. Dong named the species Octopus striolatus but this name was not recognized as ...