"The most obvious differences between different animals are differences of size, but for some reason the zoologists have paid singularly little attention to them. In a large textbook of zoology before me I find no indication that the eagle is larger than the sparrow, or the hippopotamus bigger than the hare, though some grudging admissions are made in the case of the mouse and the whale."
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Irony: Nowhere on that page does it say how large that octopus actually is. An inch? 2 meters? Unclear.
To save you the google search, it's about "tennis ball size" according to https://30a.com/larger-pacific-striped-octopus/ . Somebody should add that to the wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Being_the_Right_Size
"The most obvious differences between different animals are differences of size, but for some reason the zoologists have paid singularly little attention to them. In a large textbook of zoology before me I find no indication that the eagle is larger than the sparrow, or the hippopotamus bigger than the hare, though some grudging admissions are made in the case of the mouse and the whale."
Somebody? Why not you?
Indeed. Even easier: complain on the article's Talk page. Somebody else may then do the work for free.
Wikipedia didn't say it directly, but they already had a reference to a source that did
Anytime you're looking for more info on topic while reading its wikipedia article checking the sources is a good place to start.
It's Wikipedia, I'm sure you can add it to the wiki in about as much time as it took you to write that post.
Not really, because you need a reputable source. The popular science article they linked is good enough for HN but WP would remove it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
Also, how many are there? Is it even known?