We’re maximizing our baby cephalopod time today with this baby octopus! This larval octopus was caught during ocean monitoring efforts with the Applied California Current Ecosystem Studies program in Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones national marine sanctuaries. Have you ever seen something so adorable?
Look closely and you can see small spots. Those are cells called chromatophores, which will help the octopus change color and camouflage itself as an adult!
[Video description: A small translucent spotted octopus swims in a tray of water.]
It SNOWED in MISSISSIPPI!!! It ended up being the heaviest snow since the 1880s! Anyway I saw a lot of people making videos of their dogs experiencing snow for the first time so this happened
I love that snails can cringe so hard their entire face disappears
For those who feel so touched by a noodly appendage and wants to touch back, @franzanth‘s preposterous quick squid sketches are now available from 252MYA shop.
IT’S HAPPENING Y’ALL
Oh hey it’s Black Friday and for every purchase over $20 you’ll get a pack of six prehistoric animal stickers! Only valid for today!
They have beautiful little shells that come in a vast array of colours and patterns, but that doesn’t mean you’ll actually get to see them…
Button Tops are usually almost entirely buried beneath the surface of the sand. The only things that poke out above the surface are their tentacles, eye stalks and two tubes known as siphons.
One siphon sucks in water and filters out tiny bits of food, the other siphon ejects the water back out again.
Personally, I don’t know what I like better, the face or the shell!
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