Dr Stephanie Bush, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rhode Island, has discovered a never-before-seen defensive strategy used by a small species of deep-sea squid in which the animal counter-attacks a predator and then leaves the tips of its arms attached to the predator as a distraction. Female Octopoteuthis deletron (Hoving et al / Biology Letters) “When the foot-long octopus squid Octopoteuthis deletron found deep in the northeast...