Is a tree octopus real?

Rumor: Internet plea calls for saving the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, which can live on both land and water. ... information they find there.” Despite the fact that the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus exists only in photoshopped images, doctored videos, and incredibly detailed joke websites, Zapato insists that they are real:. read more

The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato. This fictitious endangered species of cephalopod was given the Latin name "Octopus paxarbolis" (the species name being coined from Latin pax, the root of Pacific, and Spanish arbol meaning "tree"). read more

The Tree Octopus Hoax The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is an Internet hoax created by Lyle Zapato, a Washington-based author and Web publisher, in 1998. The creature was given the scientific name Octopus paxarbolis which means 'octopus of the Pacific tree'. read more