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A walker spotted the tentacles of the world's largest species of octopus washed up on a beach in Aberdeenshire. ‌

The remains were discovered on Sunday, November 30, Forvie National Nature Reserve at Collieston, near Ellon in Aberdeenshire. ‌

The local alerted reserve staff and after some detective work the animal was identified as a seven-arm octopus. ‌

Also known as a septopus, giant gelatinous octopus, or blob octopus , they have eight arms like other octopus - but in males one of the arms is also a reproductive organ that they attach to females when mating, external, reports the BBC.

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Marine biologist Dr Lauren Smith, of East Grampian Coastal Partnership, said seven-arm octopus were a "remarkable and rarely documented" speci

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