Creature of the day: The Octopus 🐙🐙🐙🐙 An octopus (pl.: octopuses or octopodes[a]) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, an octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two eyes and a beaked mouth at the centre point of the eight limbs.[b] An octopus can radically deform its shape, enabling it to squeeze through small gaps. They t

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PUCKER UP: A diver has a close encounter with an octopus , which wraps itself around her camera. https://abcnews.go.com/Live | ABC News