The argument is that because it's the starfish-shaped, that essentially you can go from one tentacle and get to the main center, they argue, in about eight minutes time.
Certain sea animals have defensive devices that help them to survive. Sea urchins, for example, grow spines to protect themselves. The sea awesome and jellyfish have poisonous tentacles, which are used for attack and defense.
Of all the weird and wonderful creatures living under the sea, perhaps the strangest are jellyfish-those rubbery, cone-shaped creatures found floating in the water, their long tentacles trailing behind.
Then came rows of two- storied villas, each with a fronting of miniature garden, and then again interminable lines of new, staring brick buildings the monster tentacles which the giant city was throwing out into the country.
“But why have they let us? ” asked Harry, who could not shake off the vision of tentacles rising out of the dark water the moment they were out of sight of the bank.
He was chewing the gillyweed as hard and fast as he could; it felt unpleasantly slimy and rubbery, like octopus tentacles. Waist-deep in the freezing water he stopped, swallowed, and waited for something to happen.
The squids themselves can grow to be 14 meters long and weigh up to 750 kilograms with eyes the size of a dinner plate and razor-sharp sickles in the middle of their tentacles.
Meanwhile, a scene featuring the Octopus General — who speaks in a Tianjin dialect — being roasted in the furnace has turned the local specialty of stir-fried squid tentacles into a viral hit.
Though nothing on the scale of the blue whale, it is a decidedly substantial animal, with eyes the size of soccer balls and trailing tentacles that can reach lengths of sixty feet.