# @sealegacy on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DA3_QYxh1xR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/28706729-sealegacy-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/3e07787825.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-10-08T19:30:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** SeaLegacy (@sealegacy) — https://gondola.cc/sealegacy

## Caption

Happy World Octopus Day! 🐙

In celebration of one of the ocean’s most intelligent and intriguing creatures, let’s dive into some quick octopus facts:

1. The plural for octopus isn’t octopi, it’s octopuses! The “-i” ending for plurals is used for Latin-derived words, but octopus is Greek, so the plural is octopuses. 

2. Octopuses are part of the phylum Mollusca, which makes them distantly related to animals like snails and clams. Their class, cephalopod, means “head foot” in Latin!

3. Octopuses evolved their camera-like eyes entirely separate from vertebrates, yet both developed nearly identical structures through a process called “convergent evolution.”

4. You might have heard octopuses have 8 tentacles, but they actually have zero! Scientifically speaking, their appendages are not tentacles, but arms—there’s a difference!

How many of these facts did you already know? Do you know an octopus fact that wasn’t listed? Let’s hear them!

Video by paulnicklen 

#worldoctopusday #oceanschool #explore

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