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[–] TAYRN 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As much as I desperately want this to be true, I'm just gonna chalk it up to tumblr nonsense until a source gets posted.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's real! More like, "we're not really sure what we saw" but it was believed to be two different species of male octopus mating.

Not much online because it happened in 1994. Found a New York Times article about it, but this one was a more fun read:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14419481-500-torrid-sex-scenes-puzzle-octopus-experts/

Best part:

The smaller octopus was rubbing its sexual arm along its partner’s back. Then, while Voight watched, the white octopus reached under the larger male and inserted the tip of its arm into the body cavity.

while Voight watched

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Came here to say basically what you said, but I didn't notice the articles all seem to be from the 90's.

Have these octopuses not been seen mating since?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one is about deep sea squids. Not sure if thats the original source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OP’s source points to an unavailable youtube video, unfortunately

E: someone else posted the sources from the reblog notes (I don't know how tumblr works, I was only looking in the comments - whoops)