9-legged octopus found in Japanese Bay

No, they’re not pulling your leg. The discovery of an octopuswithnine legs in Shizugawa Bay inMinami-Sanriku, Japan, has surprised even a local researcher, who said he had never seen such a phenomenon. An octopus has the ability to regenerate its eight legs, and by some chance this one perhaps added one. The nine-legged creature was discovered by Kazuya Sato, 40, who by profession cultivates wakame seaweed in the town. On Nov. 13, he caught four octopuses in a trap and brought them home, where his mother, 65, noticed that one had nine legs as she was putting them in a pot to boil. The nine-legged octopus’s extra limb branches off fromthemiddle of the third leg on the left side.