Octopus Coloring Pages: An octopus is an aquatic, cephalopod with a round, soft body and eight long, slender arms. Every annula there are small mouths called suckers through which the octopus catches objects and its prey. We all are familiar with octopuses for its extraordinary solving skills and color-changing skin that develops the capability to blend into its environment. Freed from a rigid skeletal structure it can fit into often very small passages, and move through elaborate mazes. This amazing animal truly has remarkable hearing and other Derived Senses, as well as judging by its successful existence in the ocean it is quite adaptable as well.