Hot damn. A snorkeler in Hawaii stumbled on this underwater scrap between an octopus and a terrifying moray eel and it looks like it’s going to be a tangled fight to death.

The octopus doesn’t always win. In a third video, taken in 2023 near Galicia again, the conger eel grabbed the cephalopod from the head, then spins the octopus around in a death hold, slamming ...

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The eel makes one last attempt for freedom towards the end of the video, where it thrashes about once more. The octopus, however, has it tightly locked in its arms.

An eel has been filmed savagely attacking an octopus in an intense deep-sea battle, leaving the mollusk without one of its arms. Sydney diver Chris Kreis was exploring the rocky reef around Bare ...

A video showing an octopus clinging and "riding" an eel in an effort to avoid being eaten was shared on Reddit where it went viral.. Reddit user u/freudian_nipps posted the video, which appears to ...

An intense underwater battle unfolds as a Moray eel, Octopus, and Baby shark face off in a dramatic and predatory showdown. Each predator brings its unique strengths to the fight, with lightning ...

Moray eels are ambush predators, spending most of their time hidden in rocky crevices waiting for the right meal to pass by them. This eel probably would have been happier with a different fish.

This version of “octopus balls” is totally unique to Tsukiji Gindaco, a takoyaki chain restaurant, and comes with eel as well as octopus. But if you were to ask our Japanese-language reporter Yuichiro ...

During quiet sleep, octopus laqueus appears white and motionless. This quiet sleep is punctuated by bursts of sleep that show wake-like activity (active sleep) roughly every hour.