The octopus

📖 In short

The octopus is an amazing sea animal with a soft body and no bones, and eight long arms covered in suckers. It has two big eyes and a hard mouth like a parrot's beak. It's one of the cleverest animals in the sea.

🤩 Did you know?

An octopus has three hearts, and its blood is blue!
The giant octopus's arms can stretch 6 meters across.
A female octopus lays thousands of eggs and guards them until they hatch.
If an octopus loses an arm, a new one grows back.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 Eight clever arms

Each of an octopus's arms has many suckers that grip rocks and prey tightly, and it even tastes things with them! It uses its arms to catch crabs and shellfish.

🔍 Master of colors

An octopus can change the color and shape of its skin in an instant, matching rocks, sand or coral so its enemies can't see it.

💡 A cloud of ink

If an enemy attacks, an octopus squirts a cloud of black ink into the water, then shoots away fast by squirting water out of its body.

🎯 Very smart

An octopus can open a closed jar to eat what's inside, solve puzzles, and hide in coconut shells it carries around. And since it has no bones, it can squeeze through tiny gaps.