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!
Because of their adaptive abilities — rapid growth, short lifespans and flexible development — cephalopods are sometimes called “the weeds of the sea.” And it seems like that might be serving them well.
According to study published in Current Biology cephalopod abundance has increased since the 1950s. The reason for this growth is not yet clear, but it maybe that their adaptability has allowed them to thrive in a changing climate while other ocean dwelling populations suffer. Study author Bronwyn Gillanders says that figuring out the reason for cephalopod abundance may tell us a lot about “how human activities are changing the ocean.”
hey where do octopuses poop out of? I mean I know it’s probably an anus but the beak is where you’d expect the anus to be, so where is the anus?
Right on the side of the head/mantle!
Wait so do they have one on either side or is their anus asymmetrical? It’s like a muffler?
My kneejerk reaction was to say ‘yes just one anus’ but I’ve never thought about this before and animals are totally weird and awesome so I actually went to google and typed ‘how many anuses do octopuses have’ in the search bar to find the answer.
The answer, which I discovered is that yes octopuses have just a singular anus, like a muffler (which is such a great analogy I love it!!), was discovered thanks to this prezi which compares the human digestive system to the digestive system of an octopus and has a picture of an octopus intestine!
This creature of the see is pretty rad. It is immune to the stings of the Man O’ War jellyfish and actually rips off the jelly fish’s tentacles and uses them as a whip. The males have a specially modified third right arm which stores sperm, known as a hectocotylus. During mating, the male octopus will detach his arm place into the mantle of the female to fertilize her eggs. The male dies shortly after mating.
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