Putin’s SECRET WEAPON? Russian military 'developing killer octopus'
www.express.co.uk
A KILLER giant squid that can hypnotise its prey and paralyse humans at a distance of 150 feet using poisonous venom is being developed as a secret weapon by Vladimir Putin, a scientist has claimed.
  • RedSquid@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Ok first of all an octopus and a squid are in different orders, (octopus all being in octopoda and squid being actually 2 separate orders now (huh TIL) called oegopsida and myopsida) - this is like calling a human a cat (humans are order primates, cats are order carnivora).

    That’s before we even get onto the 14 “legs”. Legs! Seriously Express, could your staff not even look on wikipedia for five minutes? The limbs of cephalopods are called ‘arms’, with the 2 specialized limbs with club ends that squid have being tentacles, none of them have ‘legs’ of any kind, and squid by definition have 10 limbs (yes I know, the vampire squid from hell only has 8 arms, no tentacles but… well they aren’t really squid so they don’t count).

    Such shoddy, shoddy journalism. What’s that? Mind control rays? Perfectly reasonable. Putin told me himself on the joint Wumao-Russiabot conference call last week.