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In March 2021, a photograph started circulating on social media that supposedly showed an octopus with an abnormal number of tentacles:
This is a genuine photograph of a 96-armed octopus and is on display at Shima Marineland in Japan. It appears that the octopus has about eight “main” tentacles that branch off into several smaller tentacles.
Pinktentacle.com reports that the octopus was discovered in Matoya Bay in December 1998. It was brought to Shima Marineland but died a few months after arrival. Since then, this unusual specimen has been on display at the aquarium.
In November 2020, after a nine-armed octopus was found by a fisherman in Japan, the Shima Marineland flexed its tentacle muscle and noted that it had a specimen that topped the recent discovery by more than 80 arms.
The longest-kept mandarin dogfish in a Japanese facility swims gracefully at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture. The deep-sea shark, maintained in 12-degree temperature water, entered the aquarium in December 1990, the same time Naoto Takamura, a division chief in the care and research department, joined the facility. (Takunori Yasuda)
TOBA, Mie Prefecture A rare deep-sea shark continues to set longevity records in captivity but appears more than willing to give up the spotlight to other creatures at the Toba Aquarium here.
The shark, a mandarin dogfish, may not epitomize the ferocious image of great whites and bull sharks that can feed on humans. In fact, the dogfish at the Toba Aquarium doesn’t even attack the other critters in its surroundings, including a Japanese spider crab, the “star” of the gloomy tank.