Every octopus alive today exists because its mother died for it, and the answer is written into her DNA. Here is the genetics and biology behind one of nature's most ruthless and elegant designs.

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The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus.

David Palfrey makes a film inspired by encountering many octopus while diving in Cornish waters.