Little Shop of Horrors
Living the longest out of any octopus species, the Giant Pacific octopus is like something from ‘A Little Shop of Horrors’. With often up to 600 lbs of body weight, he is a formidable predator. With sucker-covered legs he catches his prey – but then feeds through his gigantic mouth which contains radula or a ‘toothed-tongue’. Scary!
Giant Pacific Octopus
A Real Assassin
Euphemistically called the ‘kissing bug’, the Assassin bug loves to bite people on the face, near the mouth. The ensuing parasitic infection can be fatal; approximately 12,000 people a year die from an Assassin bite.
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Assassin
