PINK OCTOPUSES
RARK BUT TRUE Only once in many years is a vampire octopus thrown up by the sea to be the object of scientific speculation, and achieve immortality in a glass case. The first ever found on the Australian coast has gone back to the sea in small pieces, as bait. Only ten oi these rare creatures are known to science. They were found at long intervals in widely scattered places—one in the Mediterranean Sea, one in the Indian Ocean and another on the shores of the Atlantic. One very small one was found on the New Zealand coast > ears ago.
This last one, found on Shelly Beach, Manley, by Mr G. J. Sly, was the largest of them all. It was almost four feet from tip to tip. Mr Sly had photographs taken while the octopus was still whole, and Miss Joyce Allan, of the Australian Museum, viewed the remains and was able to identify it. The eyes were strangely human, and of a brilliant violet colour, Miss Allan said. The body was pink, with magenta spots, and was described by Mr Sly as having, when newly out of the sea, a golden iridescence.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4957, 18 February 1937, Page 7
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