Crossword-Solution: OCTOPODS 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

But if we embrace this view, we must not forget that there are living Cephalopoda, such as the Octopods, which are devoid of any hard parts, whether external or internal, and which could leave behind them no fossil memorials of their existence, so that we must make a somewhat arbitrary assumption, namely, that at a remote era, no such Dibranchiata were in being, in order to avail ourselves of this argument in favour of progression.

When the arm is pressed upon an object, the effort to escape from the grasp of the arm causes a suction which effectually retains the object." Professor Winchell goes on to tell that these cuttlefish or octopods sometimes attain a very great size, and that sailors tell wonderful stories about them.

For in these latter the cornea is at first perforated, while different degrees of perforation of the same part are presented by different adult cuttle-fishes--large in the calamaries, smaller in the octopods, and reduced to a minute foramen in the true cuttle-fish sepia.

Now, it seems to me not a little instructive to reflect how entirely useless such a manifestation of a superior being was to his cuttle-fish mind, and how fortunate it was for his fellow-octopods that he had no command of pens as well as ink, nor any disposition to write on the nature of umbrellas or of men.

Two of the octopods were swimming strongly for shore, holding the rigid Arzian native carefully above water between them.