The OCTOMOM
You may have heard a lot about The Octomom in the news lately but you may not know what she’s all about, and so I’m here with the scoop.
It all started back in 2007 when an animal was discovered off the coast of South America called an Octosquid (pictured below).
- An Octosquid
The octosquid is bassically half octopus (Octopus cyanea, a cephalopod) and half Southern Giant Squid (Architeuthis sanctipauli, also a cephalopod). See below.
- An Octopus
- A Giant Squid fighting a Whale
Scientists have been baffled for 2 years now trying to figure out how such a monster could come to be. They theorized that there must be some shared ancestor in the evolution of octopi and squids from dinosaurs and they named this ancestor The Octomom. Aparently, an Octomom has been recently located, except very few details have come out about her condition. The one thing we know is that she spawned 8 offspring very recently. Perhaps the fact that she was giving birth explains why she ventured out of the safety of deep, southern Pacific waters. Check back here for updates.
Since a child i have loved watching documentaries about the Great White Shark, the worlds most perfect killing machine.