An octopus with nine arms was spotted at the Marusan Seafood Shop in Marugame, Japan (Kagawa prefecture) on October 26, one day after it was caught in the Seto Inland Sea.
Masa Koita, the 60-year-old shop manager, noticed the abnormal Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) after he had boiled it in preparation for market. [Pinktentacle]
Abnormal octopus with 9 arms in Japan
Octopus has 8 arms in case you don’t know… in fact the word Octopus is derived from Greek word which literally translate to ‘eight-legs’.
People often referred to the arms as tentacles, but it is not a biological correct term. Octopuses don’t have tenctacles, squids do.
A fisherman from Grand Cayman recently landed a small fish that had swallowed a much bigger fish that is 4 times bigger than its size.
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An amazing picture of more than 10,000 king penguins standing shoulder to shoulder at St Andrew’s bay on the island of South Georgia (near Antarctica), preparing to breed.
The king penguins lay their eggs in late November, with a peak around mid-December. They don’t build nests - instead the male and female of each mating couple take it in turns to incubate a single egg on their feet over the course of two months.
A gigantic pink spiny lobsters was caught by the fishing boat ‘Brittania’ around 200 miles south west of Newlyn, Cornwall, England.
Poseidon the giant lobster (Image courtesy
Dailymail)
Named “Poseidon”, the giant lobster measures two feet in length and a whopping nine-and a-quarter pounds. It is around five times the size of the average lobster.
Spiny lobsters don’t usually occur in British waters, but is usually found off the west coast of Africa and in the Mediterranean. It grows much bigger than its cousin and can survive at depths of up to 600 metres.
Poseidon will be kept in the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay; experts are now consulting record books to see if Poseidon is the biggest one ever landed in Britain.
A 1.2 metre long fossilized baculum (penis bone) from an extinct walrus is sold for $8,000 on Sunday (August 26) at a natural history auction in Beverly Hills, California.
Fossilized penis bone from extinct walrus (Image courtesy of
Sfgate)
The item was sold to the company that runs the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museums. The price will run $9,600 when auction fees are included. [Sfgate, via Boingboing]
Baculum is a bone found in the penis of most mammals (not in human though). A male walrus’s penis is completely internal but it has one of the largest penis bone in the animal kingdom.
The auctioned walrus’s balculum was found in northern Siberia, and is from a species of walrus that went extinct 12,000 years ago. It is believed to be the largest known mammal penis fossil.
Loch Ness Monster, nickname Nessie, is one of the most famous mysteries in the world.
The Surgeon’s Photo
The first recorded sighting of this monster at the Scotland’s freshwater lake date back to 565AD… but the Nessie-fever probably started in 1934 when the famous ‘Surgeon’s Photo’ was published and shocked the world. (The photo was however discovered to be a hoax in the 1993, more details at the end of the article)
Since then, numerous sightings have been reported; some with pictures or videos but none of the images captured has shown a clear evidence of the existence of Nessie. Some of the images are hoax, while some could only show that there are some objects on the surface of the water.
Critics believe that lots of the genuine and unclear images are actually showing objects like flock of water-birds, wood logs, boats and natural phenomena. Still, there are large group of believers that are certain about the existence of the Loch Ness Monster.
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