The Bizarre Blanket Octopus
March 25th, 2009
The Blanket Octopus is found in the warm waters of Australia’s northern coast, and sure is weird:
- It shows one of the highest degrees of sexual dimorphism in the animal kingdom: females can be 100 times larger and 40,000 times heavier than the males
- Females are immune to the Portuguese Man O’ War, and will tear off the jellyfish’s tentacles to use as weapons
- When threatened, these octopuses spread out their webbed tentacles like a cloak, giving the Blanket Octopus its name
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