The giant Pacific octopus can grow up to 30-feet long and on average weigh one hundred pounds up to a couple hundred pounds. Not surprisingly the Tlingits called the large octopus a devilfish, and ...

Gire: The giant Pacific octopus is very different than the Humboldt squid. It tends to live alone for pretty much its entire life, except to reproduce. They grow to be very big.

April 19, 2010— -- Nicknamed the "devil fish," the giant Pacific octopus has a place in sea-faring lore alongside whirlpools and white whales. National Geographic went searching for this ...

Giant Pacific octopus have a lifespan of three to five years, and the zoo usually gets them when they are two and a half to three and a half years old. What's incredible is the amount of growing ...

You wouldn’t think a giant octopus could hide in plain sight for decades. But researchers have now learned that the giant Pacific octopus (GPO)—the largest known octopus on Earth, ranging from ...

Pandora, the female giant Pacific octopus at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, died yesterday. ... Pandora’s arm span was 7.8 feet, and she weighed 15.4 lbs. Octopuses, like cuttlefish and squid, can ...

A Giant Pacific Octopus is displayed in Sea Life in Blankenberge, on March 29, 2012. The Giant Pacific Octopus is the largest octopus species, with tentacles up to 1m50 long.