![]() ![]() We’re looking for octopus-the Pacific day octopus, to be exact, one of perhaps 250 octopus species that exist on the planet. It can shift its shape, change its color, squirt ink and pour itself through the tiniest opening-or jet away through the sea faster than many swimmers can follow. ![]() ![]() We’re searching for one of them now: an animal with a baggy, boneless body, eight sucker-laden arms attached to its head, a beak like a parrot and venom like a snake. The sea is home to creatures who rival the strangest sci-fi aliens anyone ever imagined. It’s a three-dimensional realm that accounts for more than 95 percent of all livable space on the planet-and most of it is unexplored. But this vast blue territory is even bigger than it looks from land, or even from space. The ocean is the world’s largest wilderness, covering 70 percent of the surface of the globe. ![]()
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