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The word octopus means "eight feet." Octopuses are solitary, eight-armed animals that live on the ocean floor. The octopus belongs to the Phylum Mollusca and are in the Class Cephalopoda. There are over 100 different species of octopuses. The Giant Octopus is the biggest octopus. An octopus has an eye on each side of its head and has very good eyesight. Octopuses eat small crabs and scallops, snails, fish, and other octopuses. Octopuses live in dens, spaces under rocks, crevices on the sea floor, or holes they dig under large rocks. In order to escape predators, octopuses can squirt black ink into the water, allowing the octopus to escape. Another defense that octopuses have is changing their skin color to blend into the background, camouflaging themselves. The octopus swims by spewing water from its body, a type of jet propulsion. |