Octopuses live in oceans and seas all over the world. Some species of octopus live in shallow water while others live in the deepest parts of the ocean at depths up to 5,000 m. Most species stay close to the seafloor. One of the smallest species is the California Lilliput octopus, which measures about 2 cm across, or about the width of a bottle cap. The common octopus is a medium-sized octopus. A typical size is about 50 cm, or roughly the size of a large pizza. One of the largest, the giant Pacific octopus, can grow to a whopping 9 m. It’s so big that with its arms stretched wide it would barely fit into a two-car garage.
They have special characteristics those eight arms, no backbone, three hearts, and a huge-sized brain. They can find out some amazing things. They can grip their bendy bodies into narrow cracks, change color in a matter of seconds, and outwit an animal that lives be hunting and eating other animals with a clever disappearing act etc. They’re smart, too. They can learn new tasks and later remember what they learned. That’s something that even we humans sometimes find challenging and find out our fortune.
Scientists have believed that octopuses began to change behavior or appearance slowly, sometimes over many years. More than 400 million years ago. Their ancestor had a shell and looked something like a snail. A type of animal that has a soft body and usually lives inside a hard shell. Most mollusks live in water. Today, there are 289 species of octopus. None of them has a shell. The largest variety of octopus species is found in waters near Australia.
Drawings of octopuses on pottery thousands of years old suggest that humans have been intrigued by octopuses for a long time. Their unusual appearance has inspired myths. One of these myths is a creation myth from Kiribati, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean located northeast of Australia. This myth tells of an octopus god named Na Kika. Na Kika used its many arms to push land from under the sea upward to form the islands of Kirbati.Oc topus found the winner team in world 2010 that became true so all the people have realized truth fact of Octopus.
