octopus

Phishing scams are like an octopus: They have many sticky tentacles.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Long periods of sea heat can trigger mass die-offs among some seagrasses, shellfish and other species, as well as encouraging greater numbers of warm-water creatures including octopus.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Increasing numbers of octopus may offer a new market for fishermen, for example, but can hit populations of crabs, lobster, scallops and other shellfish on which they prey.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

One famous example was Inky, the octopus that escaped from New Zealand's National Aquarium in 2016 by squeezing through a drainpipe and making its way back to the ocean.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

The octopus started crawling across the rocks, but before dropping into the water she looked back and added, “Good luck, Roz. I’m counting on you. We’re all counting on you.”

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

That outer shell is built largely from chitin, a tough natural material also found in fungal cell walls, fish scales, and the beaks of squids and octopi.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

Jewish people were sometimes depicted as octopi in Nazi posters during World War Two.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

“Some people were turned off by the violence or the octopi scene and felt ‘Oldboy’ was too much of a genre film for competition,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

As another example, the team, in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources is experimenting with octopots — small ceramic pot homes that may attract octopi, the kelp crab’s natural predator.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

At first I thought he wearing a bunch of giant octopi.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Perhaps the most impressive discoveries are animal “cities,” including two assemblies of octopuses, dubbed Octopolis and Octlantis, found off the east coast of Australia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The team emphasizes that more research will be needed to determine whether octopuses truly maintain such mental maps.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

"These are little octopuses that live in the deep sea, and hardly anybody on Earth has ever gotten to see them. I just feel lucky that I got to work with them," says Voight.

From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026

The fossils extend the earliest known record of finned octopuses by about 15 million years and push back the broader octopus timeline by around 5 million years.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

“All I want’s a chicken sandwich. And maybe a glass of milk....You order what you want and all, though. I mean, take snails and octopuses and things. Octopi. I’m really not at all hungry.”

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger