In one short clip Cola even appears to let the octopus act as a backpack as it slowly crawls up his upper body and stretches its tentacles around his head. The Instagram post was captioned ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world ... which it uses to its advantage by yanking the siphonophore’s tentacles off and brandishing them as weapons against predators.

2. Argonaut myth In 300 B.C. Aristotle described his vision of a female argonaut using her shell as a boat and her tentacles as sails and oars. In 2010 octopus experts Julian Finn and Mark Norman ...