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Octopus will top the food chain some day.
The blanket octopus totally is the Dark Knight of the sea, in every sense of the title. It's ingenious, it's merciless and it is, in all likelihood, plain old balls-out crazy. And perhaps most Batmanny is the simple fact that, while the blanket octopus doesn't have any "powers" of its own, that doesn't stop it from jumping into the fight. Over the generations, the blanket octopus evolved an immunity to the poison of the man o' war, not because it was getting preyed on by that species, but so it could get in nice and close to the thing and rip off its poisoned tentacles, which it then carries around the ocean and uses to whip anything that looks at it sideways.
That's right: The blanket octopus actively seeks out and dismembers one of the most dangerous creatures in the sea just to use its limbs as weapons. That's like you waking up one day to find you've evolved an immunity to slash wounds, then immediately leaping out of bed and sprinting off into the woods so you can use your newfound abilities to hunt down a grizzly bear, rip its claws off and start beating wolves with them.
FantasticToast
TIL; I will never swim in the ocean again.
HesADeskRabbit
+1 just for your two paragraphs.
kamosey
I would happily tuck my x in with one of these.
RustlinYourJimmies
They don't look as badass as sharks though
ElBanditoWithEmpanadas
BLANKTOPUS
Gwenyama
I can't think of anything witty to say.
arthurianx
If it doesn't get stuck in other people's jars :)
SPKRBX
I never knew this even existed.
LarryPutsPineappleOnPizza
Seriously? Blanket Octopus? The opportunity for Superman Octopus was right there and you blew it.. damn you scientists...
MyRashSmellsLikeBacon
Ahhh yes. The psycho ex girlfriend of the sea.
TheyCallMeTheDoc
A10 will handle this bitch when it comes at us, bros.
Snapdragonz
I like how it has a cape.
Civikjm
No CAPES!
RemyEtienneLeBeau
"I am the sea"
arthurianx
"I am the sting"