{"id":309101,"date":"2025-12-10T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309101\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:40:08","slug":"rare-deep-sea-seven-arm-octopus-remains-wash-up-on-scottish-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309101\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare deep-sea seven-arm octopus remains wash up on Scottish beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remains of a rare deep-sea octopus has washed up on a beach in Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p>The Forvie National Nature Reserve were alerted to the discovery of a \u201cthick tentacle\u201d located at the beach near Newburgh.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, a dead giant squid washed up near the location of the latest discovery, however, due to the lack of teeth on the suckers, the remains were deemed to be something else.<\/p>\n<p>The remains have since been attributed to a seven-arm octopus, which is a rarely seen giant cephalopod that dwells deep in the ocean\u2019s twilight zone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/14c905dd6d4bbd2a0588cc3f57ceb62f-1765359177.jpg\" width=\"838\" height=\"847\"   alt=\"A larger portion of the octopus was found at the nature reserve.\"\/>NatureScotA larger portion of the octopus was found at the nature reserve. NatureScot<\/p>\n<p>Despite being described as a seven-armed octopus, the creature actually has eight tentacles. It was given the name because males have one tentacle coiled in a sac under their right eye, which is used in egg fertilisation.<\/p>\n<p>A larger portion of the deep-sea octopus, including its beak, was found at another part of the Forvie Nature Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The remains of a rare deep-sea octopus has washed up on a beach in Aberdeenshire. The Forvie National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-309101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}