Tag: tentacles

‘Poulpe colossal’, 1802

Facsimile of De Monfort’s ‘Poulpe colossal’. Colossal Octopus attacking a sailing vessel off the coast of Angola. Illustration by French naturalist Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) first published in Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques in 1802 as described by Norwegian sailors and American whalers.