octopus
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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
Remarkably Bright Creatures, a drama starring Sally Field and Lewis Pullman about a perceptive octopus who observes the staff in his aquarium, won best movie.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 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
Then he realized he had the ends backwards—it was an octopus with seven of its legs chewed off in a fight with something Scooter hoped he would never meet up with himself.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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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
While filling a definite order for octopi, Doc could replenish his stock of the cradles.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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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
"Our work suggests that octopuses might also have internal maps, an internal representation of space."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
I’ll stick to octopuses, thank you very much.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Marine Biology - Introductory
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