https://www.isegoria.net/2017/05/no-sci-fi-alien-is-as-strange-as-an-octopus/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2017/05/no-sci-fi-alien-is-as-strange-as-an-octopus/comment-page-1/#comment-2552582 Bruce Wed, 03 May 2017 05:13:10 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41801#comment-2552582 I suspect octopi and squids have been overhunted to a shadow of what they used to be by cetacea.

]]> https://www.isegoria.net/2017/05/no-sci-fi-alien-is-as-strange-as-an-octopus/comment-page-1/#comment-2552552 George Henderson (@puddleg) Tue, 02 May 2017 20:38:59 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41801#comment-2552552 An interesting co-incidence in the life histories of octapods, 8-limbed creatures being rare, is that both the octopus and the spider have the same, uncommon, maternal behaviour, laying eggs and staying with them and tending them till death, when the eggs hatch.

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