First-of-its-kind footage captures the moment an octopus fires projectiles at predatory fish while hiding in a clam shell, like a mini sharpshooter.
The clip, filmed for Netflix's new series "Our Oceans," shows a coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus), also known as a veined octopus, as it fires tiny stones from its siphon — a tube-like structure octopuses use to swim and steer — at fish swimming by.
