octopus - recently published headlines NowPublic

Octopus oracle Paul gets tentacles on World Cup, retires from prediction

Paul the Octopus is Dead: The Oracle Octopus Dies in His Sleep

Paul the Oracle Octopus Who Correctly Predicted Eight World Cup Outcomes This Year Has Died It is with sad news that we announce the passing of perhaps the most famous octopus in the world. Paul the oracle octopus...

created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
652 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments

bluewavechris

Octopuses Love High Definition Television (HDTV) - Renata Pronk

The Journal of Experimental Biology reports that octopuses prefer high definition television (HDTV) over standard TV and have erratic personalities. Scientists found that when showed high definition video of crabs...

created by Paul Conneally | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
361 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments

maynard.hogg

Octopus snatches coconut and runs

Coconuts and loony octopus but really its a good idea, sort of under water mobile home . Sometime is hard to find a suitable cave that's snug and warm at night. " An octopus and its coconut-carrying antics...

created by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
241 views | 16 recommendations | 1 comment

maynard.hogg

Octopus causes flooding in California aquarium

An octopus at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in California caused the flooding that allowed hundreds of gallons of water to overflow into the visitor's area, when it became curious and tugged on a valve in its tank....

created by Amy Judd | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
467 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments

nadine068

6 arms and 2 legs

A while back I highlighted a story about how a marine zoo in Weymouth UK was trying to find out if Octopuses were left or right handed by getting them to play with Rubik's Cubes and other toys now that research...

created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
583 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment

kalibeatty

Octopuses play rubiks cube

Is your octopus left or right handed? And which hand on the left or right does it favour? Well if we were to go live in an octopuses garden as Ringo Star (who is 68 today) we'd perhaps find out. in the...

created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
1715 views | 33 recommendations | 25 comments

The brighter side of Brooke Bennett

" Find Recent Articles: Or click here for stories over 14 days old ...

created by master_jim2008 | 3 years ago
570 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

emersonebrown

Man admits to Octopus porn

Now I've heard of wandering hands but 'octopus porn'?" A MAN has admitted downloading a catalogue of depraved images - including clips of sex acts being performed on an OCTOPUS. Tasmanian Rodney Scott McLagan,...

created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
2893 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment

Octopus sex more sophisticated than arm-wrestling

Life is interesting... I expected more about those videos, but they were quite short clips. "BERKELEY – For decades, scientists have viewed octopuses as unromantic loners, with mating habits nearly devoid of complex behavior. But new research from the University of...

created by Pasi | 3 years ago
342 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Octopus sex more sophisticated than arm-wrestling

"For decades,scientists have viewed octopuses as unromantic loners, with matinghabits nearly devoid of complex behavior. But new research from theUniversity of California, Berkeley, has found that at least one speciesof octopus engages in such sophisticated lovemaking tactics...

created by kate | 3 years ago
2351 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment

d slat

Study: Octopuses Kinky Creatures of Sea

By the sounds of this study, wild octopuses live a soap-opera-worthy existence. A life of romantic jealousy, once-in-a-lifetime sex and violent death."The new study by researchers from the University of...

created by Rachel Nixon | 3 years ago
638 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments

Henry the Hexapus, not a six-legged octopus

See the picture of Henry the Hexapus he is a resident of Blackpool Sea Life Centre in the north-west of England.

created by samblesj | 3 years ago
683 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

zpaperboyz

Man dead after polar bear swim in Trail, B.C.

"TRAIL, B.C. -- A man is dead after taking part in this town's annual Polar Bear Swim on New Year's Day. Police suspect alcohol was involved in the death of the 44-year-old Trail man, who had been wearing a...

created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
885 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

Blue Ring Octopus , Raja Ampat (Indonesia)

kinderpot

mark one point for vegans... 'weird food' website tells all...

"Baby Octopus in Soju (Korea): You are given a bowl of live baby octopi and a plate which is covered in soju (Korean alcohol). You pick one octopus up and wipe it in the soju which puts it to sleep and then eat...