Due to a lack of snow over the past two years, Horton hasn’t been able to make a splashy sculpture. But with this year’s winter weather, he finally got his chance. The result: an octopus.

More than a fanciful shark-octopus hybrid featured in low-budget sci-fi films of the 2010s, the "sharktopus" has been spotted in real life - well, kind of. The sighting was not that of some mish ...

The shark’s accessory wasn’t inanimate: it was a Maori octopus. Capable of growing up to 6.5 feet wide and weighing around 26 pounds, the Maori octopus is the largest species of its kind in ...