#octopus squid

[typhlonectes]

The Mystery of the Largest Light in the Sea

This giant squid has the world’s biggest light-producing organs. But why?

A quarter-mile below the ocean’s surface, in the borderless realm of the midwater, two blue-green orbs illuminate the inky black. 

They glow for a few seconds then disappear. When they return, it’s for the same duration. The same disappearance. It’s a signal, a message, the morse code of an ancient language of light.

Friend or foe? Rival or mate? I am here, I am this.

These orbs belong to Taningia danae, a species of deep-sea squid who can grow to more than seven feet in length and weigh more than 130 pounds. Also known as the Dana octopus squid for their eight arms and lack of feeding tentacles, these animals glide through the depths on a pair of huge muscular fins that unfurl from their maroon-colored body, or “mantle.”

Their arms are lined with two rows of sharp retractable hooks. And, like most deep-sea squid, they are adorned with light organs called photophores. They have some on the underside of their mantle. There are more facing upward, near one of their eyes. But it’s the photophores at the tip of two stubby arms that are truly unique. The size and shape of lemons—each nestled within a retractable lid like an eyeball in a socket—they are by far the largest photophores known to science...

Read more: 

https://nautil.us/the-mystery-of-the-largest-light-in-the-sea-308189

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Dana octopus squid (SOURCE)

[pulsethebabyoctopus]

Octopus squid

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Sea monster illustrations by William 巴特尔  Bao

[elusive-roetato]

I bought Splatoon 3 with exactly zero knowledge of anything that happened in the previous games

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[ehrenenglish]

Three of my recent cephalopod paintings, in order of creation. Nautilus on blank skateboard, Kraken on wood panel, Japanese Firefly Squid on blank skateboard.

[sarahmackattack]

Do you like Squid Facts? 🔲Yes 🔲No

This valentines day, we thought you might need a little help from cephalopods to celebrate. Get a pack of 20 cards for your classroom, your coworkers, your neighborhood, frankly anyone who needs both a valentine AND a little bit of science to boot.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

Proceeds benefit science education nonprofit Skype a Scientist AND the graduate student who designed these cards who is studying octopuses (Meg Mindlin @invertebabe!). Meg is trying to afford to get to a cephalopod neuroscience conference later this year and these cards will help her get there 🫡

They, of course, come with the classic heart stickers, a range of shades of pink and purple included.

[mitta-likes-moths]

fuck being human I wanna be a bioluminescent cephalopod >:(

[abby-splaty]

Some friends and I unleashed the krakens upon a sand festival!

[swainathan]

Mollusca - The Gastropod, Cephalopod, and Bivalve Pokémon

Prints can be found here!

The rest of the Pokémon Naturalist designs are also available here!

[invertebabe]

Idk about y’all but valentines memes have been my favorite part of the holiday since I was an inappropriately young child on the internet

So I made some cephalopod themed ones for your enjoyment <3

These puns are ones that did not make the cut for our actual Valentine’s Day cards shown in the last image

Purchase them at squidfacts.bigcartel.com <3

[dailycephalopods]

yknow chief… it’s been a long day

octopus. on the rocks.

Daily Cephalopod #152

[mbari-blog]

Cephalopods of the deep

Black-eyed squid

Vampire squid

Deep-sea octopus

Piglet squid

Market squid

Big-finned octopus

Flapjack octopus

Deep-sea squid

The class Cephalopoda—octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, nautilus, and their relatives—are famous for their color change, cognition, and contortions. Those adaptations help them thrive from the intertidal all the way to the deep seafloor.

[propalitetz]

quick doodle

[idoodle2draw-marquer]

my side of an art trade with my besties @astronumbers and t where we drew about our Salmon Run inside jokes 🐟💥

I HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH THIS LMAO

here's their sides of the trade :D LOOK AT 'EM !!!!!!!!!!!✨✨

the point of the art trade was that we all drew these without showing any progress or telling what ours were about- and to send them all to each other finished, like a surprise!

hilariously, we all had the same idea of making Piranha being silly and nomming on an egg HEHE 🤍