#giant octopus

[sharks-are-friends-not-foes]

🐙Daily Cephalopod Fact:🐙

The Giant Pacific Octopus can be found from the intertidal zone down to 6,600 ft, and is best-adapted to colder, oxygen- and nutrient-rich waters. It is one of the largest octopus species on earth and can often be found in aquariums and research facilities in addition to the ocean. They play an important role in maintaining the health and biodiversity of deep sea ecosystems, cognitive research, and the fishing industry.

[a-book-of-creatures]

This children's book on oceanography had no need to make the cover this badass, and yet they went all out on it. Legends

[atomic-chronoscaph]

It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

[trappezoider]

Underglow

“Actually,” he says, hearing his voice from far away — already as if from underwater, “how about we make that dare more interesting. After all, dipping your toes in the lake is hardly special enough for the last night.” Ominis pauses, hands on his second pantleg. “Sebastian—” “I dare you to get in naked.”

*** The last night at Hogwarts, the Black Lake, and some slightly ridiculous wooing strategies. Possibly, mermaids.

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Amazing, gorgeous, lovely, breathtaking prose by @blatantblue Art done by me :)

[thelovelyseas]

Enteroctopus closeup by Alexander Semenov

[dadaonice]

Bikinius Bottomus

[spencerranch]

Monster Month Day 8- Lusca

A half-shark, half-octopus in the Bamas? Lusca is a cryptid in need of a much higher profile. Just look at this little lady!

Lusca - Wikipedia

[siryl]

"Kraken" by Russell Marks.

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

My darkest, most depraved dreams are finally coming true: The Asylum is ripping its limiter off and making its own Destroy All Monsters. Mega Shark! Sharknado! Five-Headed Shark! Mecha Shark! Other monsters who are inexplicably not sharks! Oh yeah, and it's coming out next week.

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Jakub Rozalski

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Giant Octopus

The only thing that flows faster than water is fear.

Artist: Heather Hudson TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[scrivnomancer]

Goodnight out there, whatever you are.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

[kiy-anna]

I have this headcannon that Azul's octomer form is based on the Giant Pacific octopus (Also known as the North Pacific Giant Octopus: Enteroctopus dofleini).

Based on what I read, this thing can grow anywhere from 7 feet to 13 feet long and can weigh from 22 to 160 pounds (Adult). They eat shrimp, crab, scallop, clam, lobster, fish, and soft bodied prey and have been also known to scavenge larger fish and birds (watch out Leeches!). And, apparently, if it used all eight tentacles, it could also pull over 700 pounds!

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Captain Nemo observing an octopus through the window of the Nautilus, illustration by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville for the Hetzel edition of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. (1869)

[briefbestiary]

When they were Yaushikep, they would terrorize the village of Rebunge, however fervent prayer was answered by the sea god Repun Kamuy, who dragged Yaushikep into the sea, transforming the red spider into an octopus. Now, as Atkor Kamuy, they act as the ambivalent god of Uchiura Bay, equal parts protective and merciless, capable of swallowing passing ships and whales with ease.

When Atkor Kamuy appears above the waves, both the sky and the water are coloured red to reflect the scale of the deity's massive manifestation.