That mating behavior was such accepted science that in 1982, when Panamanian marine biologist Arcadio Rodaniche reported finding an octopus that mated beak to beak and cohabited between sex acts ...

a sharp beak, and presumably ten arms lined with suckers that made Tusoteuthis a formidable predator in the Late Cretaceous seas. Smaller cephalopods and fish were likely dietary staples ...

This means it cannot swallow large pieces of food. Giant squid have a parrot-like beak between their eight arms and two tentacles. It is used to kill prey and to tear it into pieces small enough ...