The mimic octopus is unlike any other sea creature. With its incredible ability to imitate multiple species, it’s not just surviving in the ocean - it’s thriving as nature’s master of disguise.

The mimic octopus impersonates a variety of flounders and soles by flattening its head, arranging its arms to form a flatfish silhouette, and adopting characteristic undulating movements.

An curved arrow pointing right. Ed O'Neill voices Hank in "Finding Dory," a mimic octopus that lost a tentacle (technically making him a septopus). The mimic octopus is a real creature ...

The giant Pacific octopus grows bigger and lives longer than ... giant Pacific octopuses have learned to open jars, mimic other octopuses, and solve mazes in lab tests. Their population numbers ...

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around eight inches), relatively short arms, bell-shaped body, pale coloring, and tendency to hover over the seafloor, and you’ve got a cephalopod ...