octopus

OK, I’m casting my mind back to that Pirates of the Caribbean sequel where Bill Nighy had an octopus for a face.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

The geographic features are hot spots of biodiversity, with corals, sponges and even an octopus garden, just like in the Beatles song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The food alone made the day’s mileage seem like a bargain: octopus in Galicia, Arzúa-Ulloa cheese from a farmers market or milk-fed lamb that made me forgive every hill in Castilla y León.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

A human, an octopus, and a coral may appear to have almost nothing in common, but their chromosomes still contain recognizable fragments inherited from an animal ancestor that lived more than 600 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

She puts her fingers to her temples, like I taught her to do, and I wiggle my fingers like a gigantic octopus.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

It helps form insect exoskeletons, fungal cell walls, fish scales, and structures such as the beaks of squids and octopi.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 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

Red Wings faithful throw live and dead octopi on the ice to salute three-goal games, and Nashville Predators fans toss catfish.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2021

Then you go through the backyard to a covered shed on piles over the ocean and here are the tanks for the larger animals, the sharks and rays and octopi, each in their concrete tanks.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

The women are nevertheless linked—by their resilience, their unhappy dealings with Andreas and, intriguingly, their shared fascination with octopuses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

It’s not clear when the trafficked animals might join the roughly 12,000 turtles, frogs, octopuses, penguins, sharks and other sea creatures currently on public display.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

Some octopuses even climbed over the side of the box to reach the location of the projected image rather than swimming around it.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Cressie crocheted four eight-legged octopuses out of various colors of yarn to sit on the bed.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd