I think octopi are neat. I think they are so neat, they scare the living crap out of me. We have already talked about some of the more interesting octopus discoveries here in the last three years or so. They are fascinating creatures, and we will all probably die screaming something like “Why didn’t we ever think 8 arms could do that….”.

So, I present the latest breaking octopus news with great relish. I guess some of the Cousteau types were playing around with their high-tech underwater robot toy when a giant octopus shows them who’s boss and gives them the old one-two-three and then the four-five-six, followed by a stunning seven-eight. The sub was lucky to get away intact with only a series of severe hickeys.

Oh man, those scientists got so tentacle-smacked, it was an underwater come-uppance of invertebrate proportions. Sweet.