Science News for Kids: Feature: Walktopus

Recommended Web sites:

Crissy Hubbard has a Web site at ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~chuffard/ (University of California, Berkeley).

You can learn more about the discovery and see an octopus walking at www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/24_octopus.shtml (University of California, Berkeley).

Additional information about octopuses can be found at www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/ and www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/critters/octopus.html (PBS).

Books recommended by SearchIt!Science:

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The Octopus: Phantom of the Sea — Mary M. Cerullo

Published by Cobblehill Books/Penguin Putnam, 1997.

How does an octopus breathe? How does it move? What does it eat? Learn how octopuses live and how they protect themselves. Discover the many different kinds and see how scientists study these interesting creatures.

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Octopuses — Diane Swanson

Published by Gareth Stevens, 2002.

What animal is mostly arms? An octopus, of course! But there's a lot more to an octopus than its arms, as you'll find out in this introduction to the mysterious marine creature. Learn about the different kinds of octopuses (though nobody knows exactly how many different kinds exist), find out where octopuses live, and discover what octopuses eat. The book also explains how octopuses change their skin color, how octopuses defend themselves from predators, and how baby octopuses grow up.

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Octopuses — Ron Hirschi

Published by Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing, 2000.

Before there was diving equipment, people told legends about a mysterious devilfish that lived in the deep sea. Now, we know that the mysterious devilfish is really an octopus. But what is an octopus? This book, with colorful underwater photographs, tells all about octopuses: where they live, how they find food, how they escape enemies, and their life cycles. Find out about different octopus habitats, and learn how octopuses move.

From The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary and The American Heritage® Children's Science Dictionary.

octopus A type of mollusk that has a soft, rounded body with eight tentacles and large eyes. The tentacles of the octopus have two rows of suckers that are used for holding on to things. Octopuses are considered to be the most intelligent of the invertebrates. Plural form: octopuses or octopi.