Where the octopuses play…
If you’ve visited my blog a few times before you might know that I’m a tad obsessed with elephants and octopuses. But chances are this is your first time accidentally … Continue readingWhere the octopuses play…
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Beautiful octopus ballet is…well…beautiful…
Sometimes YouTube coughs up an old, but lovely, video that has somehow managed to escape my notice for years. Such was the case today when I stumbled across this underwater … Continue readingBeautiful octopus ballet is…well…beautiful…
The magic of octopus camouflage…
If you’ve visited Skyblue-pink before you probably know that there are a couple things I obsess over just a bit. (And by a bit I do, of course, mean a … Continue readingThe magic of octopus camouflage…
Magical encounter with a Giant Pacific Octopus
Not new, but new to me…and judging by the views on the video unknown to most…is this pretty darn cool encounter with a Giant Pacific Octopus. … Continue readingMagical encounter with a Giant Pacific Octopus
And today’s stumble across it octopus illustration love goes to…
…Meg Lyman for her unimaginably fabulous re-imagining of Jacques-Louis David’s classic painting, “Napoleon Crossing the Alps.” … Continue readingAnd today’s stumble across it octopus illustration love goes to…
So apparently octopuses hanging out outside of water is a new “thing”…
I mean it’s not like this octopus-out-of-water thing is actually anything new. Apparently, according to octopus owners, ventures outside of the tank are not that uncommon of a battle to … Continue readingSo apparently octopuses hanging out outside of water is a new “thing”…
On being influential, cephalopods, and stuff…
In honor of Klout thinking that I’m influential about octopuses for some reason I thought I’d resurrect and oldie-but-a-goodie and a favorite of mine “Octopus steals camera.”… … Continue readingOn being influential, cephalopods, and stuff…
Krakens not only were real they might have been artists!
I’m so in love with this story I could practically explode.
According to paleontologist Mark McMenamin from Mount Holyoke College not only is their a very real possibility that the mythological kraken once DID roam the seas, but at least one of the cephalopods may have even been self aware enough to have actually created the earliest known self portrait. … Continue readingKrakens not only were real they might have been artists!
Momma Octopus Doing What Momma Octopuses Do…
This lovely video shot by Laurynn Evans documents a mother giant Pacific octopus off the coast of Seattle gently taking care of her 50,000+ egg babies… … Continue readingMomma Octopus Doing What Momma Octopuses Do…