How strong is a octopuses suction cups?

Answer 1

It depends on the size of it. They can range from 8 inches to 20 feet.

Answer 2

Octopus tentacles can be so strong they can crush your ribs

Answer 3

Nobody knows how strong a giant squid (Architeuthis dux) is. There is not enough data.

But they are VERY strong.

Claims of specimens of Architeuthis measuring 20 meters or more have not been scientifically documented, but these unusualy large sizes are not dismissed, a priori.

And the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni,) is much stronger, having a much larger mantle body, and having a total weight - more than 500 kg - that may be the double average weight of a giant squid.

These cephalopd giants of the deep HAVE TO BE STRONG. They have mighty predators.

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is belived to be their most fearsom adversary, in the Holocene.

But there were other more serious predators, in the Miocene, and even before.

During the Miocene and the earlier Pliocene, Livyatan melvillei had a body length of 13.5 to 17.5 metres (larger specimen probably larger), and most certainly they the top predators of deep sea cephalopods.

A great controversiahas been lasting from 2011, about the "Triassic kraken".

The very large ichthyosaurs, from the late Triassic to earlier Cretaceous period, were the apex predators of the deep-sea very large cephalopoda class.

But these ichthyosaurs were ofter the prey of the above mentioned "Triassic kraken", instead of predators...

Last but least, the Octopus giganteus verrill, classified by the late Dr. Addison Emery Verrill(1839-1926), first professor of zoology at Yale University, astonishingly, is a near perfect descipion of the "Triassic kraken" descibed by Dr. Mark McMenamin,

professor of Geology at Mount Holyoke College.

Samples preserved of the Octopus giganteus were lost and its species was never confirmed, said Dr. James Mead, a zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution, where detailed pictures of the specimen are still stored for further study and comparative research.

Answer 4

It depends on the size of it. They can range from 8 inches to 20 feet.

Answer 5

Octopus tentacles can be so strong they can crush your ribs

Answer 6

Their so strong they can open any stuck jar in less than a second. They lift.

Answer 7

i would say squid because its bigger.