Story: Octopus and squid

Squid suckers

This close-up of an arrow squid’s suckers shows its inner ring of hooks.

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Maggy Wassilieff and Steve O’Shea, Octopus and squid – Feeding and predation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7914/squid-suckers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff and Steve O’Shea, published 2 March 2009.

Comments

Adam
10 October 2010

To quote Neo from "The Matrix": "Jesus Christ that thing is real??!!!" I just started looking up squid tentacles for reference for a drawing and had thought about maybe putting teeth/spikes inside the tentacle suckers but I had nooooooo idea it really occurred in nature. Crazy.