The strange case of the Pacific tree octopus

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Back in 1998, Lyle Zapato launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to save what he called the 'tree octopus'.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/336547/the-strange-case-of-the-pacific-tree-octopus

[Seti42 1,481]

I have an old DVD miniseries called 'The Future is Wild'. Each episode postulates life on earth millions of years in the future, with humans gone.
There actually is an arboreal octopus mentioned and brought to life with early 2000's CGI. It's a pretty good show, if very dated at this point. It plays much like Walking With Dinosaurs, but the CG creatures are totally speculative. 

Edited April 23, 2020 by Seti42

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2 hours ago, Seti42 said:

I have an old DVD miniseries called 'The Future is Wild'. Each episode postulates life on earth millions of years in the future, with humans gone.
There actually is an arboreal octopus mentioned and brought to life with early 2000's CGI. It's a pretty good show, if very dated at this point. It plays much like Walking With Dinosaurs, but the CG creatures are totally speculative. 

I just had a look, on your recommendation, and it's on YouTube 

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Here's the actual website if anyone's interested.

https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

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Of course the tree octopus isnt real. But the arboreal clams? Very real. They hide in the deep lichen and moss of the branches after climbing up as a sluglike youngster.

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Really? Never heard of it.

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However, tree crabs are very much real

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/new-crab-species-india-weird-wild-animals/

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https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/red-white-and-blue-crabs-these-tree-climbing-bird-killing-crabs-come-in-multiple-colors-and-no-one-knows-why

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My run away favourite cryptid. Doesn't matter to me if it was made up more recently than most I genuinely love the idea.

Squibbens I think they were called in The Future is Wild. And there was the big cumbersome one who was rumbling along the forest floor too.Great stuff. 

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4 hours ago, Essan said:

However, tree crabs are very much real

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/new-crab-species-india-weird-wild-animals/

Is they any good to eat?