Tenticular Gesticulation

Being a blog about my inexplicable fascination with octopodes

NOTE: I am not a marine biologist, I am just an idiot with a blog

OCTOber Sixth: Henry the Hexapus

Back in 2008, some British marine biologists found a very unique six-limbed octopus in a lobster pot off the coast of North Wales. The absence of two tentacles was not noticed until later, while the little guy was living in a tank at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre in North West England. He was named Henry the Hexapus (alluding to King Henry VIII, who famously had six wives). The abnormal limb count is not due to any accident, but appears to be a "natal anomoly". I wish I had a better picture, but this is all I could find: