A Little Baby Octopus
This is insanely adorable. /misc/b/baby-octopus-jellybean.mp4 For more cuteness, you can see a high-res photo of a transparent baby octopus or a baby octopus’ chromatophores 🥰…
sixteen things tagged “octopus”
Octopus Swims Around and then Enters Stealth Mode
/misc/o/octopus-stealth-mode.mp4 This is indescribably badass.…
The Glass Octopus and Other Deep Sea Aliens by Solvin Zankl
Glass Octopus (Vitreledonella richardi) Longarm Octopus larva (Macrotritopus defilippi) Marine Snail (Atlanta inclinata) Sea Butterfly (Clio chaptali) Eye-flash Squid (Abralia veranyi) Deep sea eel Male copepods Larval Prawn (Plesiopenaeus armatus) Glass Squid (Bathothauma lyromma) More her…
Know Your Cephalopods
(Source unknown) TIL that (a) tentacles and arms are two different things and (b) there is a lot more diversity to this family1 than I’d imagined! I don’t mean “family” in a taxonomic sense.↩︎…
The Blanket Octopus
This is just indescribably beautiful. /misc/b/blanket-octopus.mp4…
The Sand Octopus
Octopus kaurna lacks chromatophores like other octopuses. So it just burrows instead 😍🐙. It’s the only known octopus to bury itself completely like this. /misc/s/sand-octopus.mp4 The process begins with the octopus using its siphon to inject water into the sand, creating quicksand-like condition…
This is the best octopus fossil ever found.
It was found in 1982 in France. It’s 165M years old. Researchers reconstructed it in 3D using “synchrotron microtomography.” I was unable this reconstruction because the system of scientific journals is a money-grubbing bullshit system run by greedy people. Here she is though ♥️…
Definitely Not Octopuses
From this book that features 14 animals. Which are definitely not octopuses.…
Octopus Meets Jar
/misc/o/octopus-jar.mp4 ♥️🐙♥️…
Sleeping Octopus
You could almost just narrate the body changes and narrate the dream. So here she’s asleep. She sees a crab and her color starts to change a little bit then she turns all dark. Octopuses will do that when they leave the bottom. This is a camouflage like she’s just subdued a crab and now she’s going…
Transparent Baby Octopus
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My Octopus Teacher(2020)
A beautiful story about my favorite alien told with phenomenally good camera work. Left me a bit misty-eyed1. Lovely stuff. Felt like kicking myself for reading a few comments about it on Hacker News later. Not sure why I did this but promised myself I’d stick to the topics that site is good for (em…
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The Blue Ringed Octopus
Some absolutely marvelous photos of a Southen Blue-Ringed Octopus by @SammyGlennDives Like she’s dancing! Would love to find out what kind of protective gear the photographer had on. But it seems like the octopuses are very shy and will attack only when provoked, which is when their rings become…
Ballpoint Octopus
Behold Ray Cicin’s yuge version of Ernst Haeckel’s octopus illustration drawn with discarded ballpoint pens. Prints are available.…
Digital Octopode
Never knew this was a thing. Behold a pliable, $200 digital model of an octopus for 3D Studio Max (with “72366 Faces and 71879 Vertices.”) /misc/o/octopus_3d.mp4…
Baby Chromatophores
I cannot get over how maddeningly cute this is. Reddit user pendragwen’s comment makes it even better: Awww! But look at how they test out their chromatophores first thing after hatching! It’s speculated that color-changing is how they communicate and show emotion. Almost like a little joyful stret…