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Complicated Octopus Facts:
Octopus dofleini

Filed under: Complicated Octopus Facts by Kristin at 2:17 pm

Today’s Complicated Octopus Fact comes to us from The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Photo by dive.bc.ca

What is the largest octopus?

The largest octopus is the North Pacific giant octopus (Octopus dofleini). It lives in the Northeast and the Northwest Pacific Oceans and weighs about 15kg.  Some of the largest ones weigh up to 50kg and measure up to 3-5 meters total length.”

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