Baby Octopus Cutie-pie reveals a ruthless side

The competition for the cutest cephalopod in the world has really increased this week.

We watched with wonder adorable octopus swam off the coast of California, but we must now consider a small Hawaiian octopus.

The US Department of the Interior published this week on Twitter a photo of a tiny baby octopus found in the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historic Park in Hawaii, accompanied by the following message: "Who knew that one Octopus could be so cute! "

Marine biologists in the Hawaiian park discovered the small cephalopod in August on floating plastic debris. The team safely released the small tyke into the ocean.

The dive team, who was monitoring the coral reef in the area, found a second octopus baby on another piece of plastic debris. It was scathing and just as cute, but obviously more deadly. He was caught in the act of attacking and killing a baby crab.

"Maybe they're not so cute?" the park said in a Facebook post.

Babies were most likely octopuses by day or night, two types commonly found in Hawaiian waters. Apparently, they like to decorate their farms with their conquests. "Their dens are often recognized by the pile of broken crab shells and escargot (past meal remains) found right outside the entrance," says the Waikiki Aquarium.

We can not blame the baby for being hungry and choosing to eat a handy crab. It's just that it looks like a scene from a sci-fi horror movie.

While the hungry Octopus baby is a good reminder that nature can be both charming and unforgiving, its floating discovery on plastic also highlights the fact that plastic pollution is a widespread problem in ocean waters.