Surprisingly little is known about the blanket octopus and its behavior, but one thing is certain: they’re breathtakingly beautiful. This octopus can be found in the Pacific Ocean, usually clinging to the side of a coral reef at night while also finding shelter in rock crevices during the day.

The Blanket Octopus (Tremoctopus violaceus), which lives in subtropical and tropical oceans, epitomizes the nomadic invertebrate lifestyle by spending her days drifting through the wide sea. The four different species of blanket octopus get their names from the females' flowing, transparent, iridescent flesh that joins four of their limbs. The Blanket Octopus is another unsolved ocean enigma since it spends its entire life in the open ocean and is therefore rarely seen.

The Female Blanket Octopus has a magnificent cloak that, she can unfold to enlarge herself, but what if it doesn't? Her fall-back strategy is to rip off pieces of her cape to fool a predator long enough for her to escape quickly with all of her vital organs still in tact, comparable to a lizard feeling threatened and losing its tail.

The female blanket octopus is 10,000 times bigger than the male, who is just 4 cm long and shaped like a tiny dumpling. Not only that — he’s also neutrally colored with blue highlights and can change color to blend in with his environment. That means he is not very flashy and stays hidden in plain sight while the females protect their eggs.

The highly deadly Portuguese man o' war, a jellyfish-like monster that plys the open waters, is capable of hurting its prey, but the Blanket Octopus is strangely resistant to its tentacles' venom. This is a very clever ploy, but when researchers discovered a blanket octopus with tentacles connected to its suckers, they discovered that the animals STEAL the tendrils to use as weapons to defend themselves or as tiny stun guns to incapacitate victims.