Just when you thought they couldn’t get any cooler, one octopus in the Caribbean seriously upped the ante.
In the video below, watch what happens when diver Jonathan Gordon tries to check out a seashell off the west coast of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe. When he’s about three feet away, two big eyes suddenly appear and a neon blue octopus slowly inflates out of the ocean floor. The octopus looks downright other-worldly as it asserts itself.
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“I’m sure the display was meant to surprise or scare away predators,” Gordon told HuffPost, “but in my case, it was what was keeping me there. After the third time, I decided to leave the creature in peace.”
