Much awesomeness. Look at all the octopuses!
Literally 30 minutes ago scientists found a WHALEFALL on live broadcast. And YOU can submit questions directly to the scientists right below the video on the website. This is so AWESOME!! https://t.co/vpeoq9xbpg
— Open Ocean Exploration (@RebeccaRHelm) October 16, 2019
It’s showing live on NautilusLive right now!
A baby Octopus octopus found by NOAA in American Samoa.
This poor woman thought it would be funny to pose for a photo with a small octopus on her face. The octopus disagreed, and bit her.
“And I’m still in pain,” said Bisceglia. “I’m on three different antibiotics. This can come and go, the swelling, for months they say.” She says the whole painful experience taught her a valuable lesson about handling a live octopus.
“This was not a good idea,” said Bisceglia. “I will never do it again.”
That’s one reason they have venoms, you know, besides streamlining the killing of prey. Never do it again. Also, tell all your friends if you survive that they shouldn’t disturb the octopus.
Isn’t evolution grand?
But in my brain, I know it’s not.
Molluscs are no more closely related to arachnids than they are to us.
Which means…we’re all a big happy wet monkey spider family together?
I am OFFENDED. There’s this collection of pulp magazine covers featuring cephalopods, and they’re terrible.
Look at this one: I have a thousand questions. Why are they exploring an alien planet in skimpy clothes? Why is the man wearing a space helmet, but the woman apparently doesn’t need one? Why does the cephalopod have its mouth in the wrong place, and why does it have teeth?
Nice headlights, octopus-man. Also, why is his human face a couple of stories tall? Does the artist know nothing of perspective?
This is the worst one of them all. It’s asymmetric, with some arms on the left improbably long, while the ones on the right looking different. It’s got this hunchbacked, bug-like look with appendages coming off the mantle. This was drawn by a person who apparently never saw a cephalopod.
I swear, I’m going to stop this time-machine and turn it back 70 years just so I can slap a couple of bad artists.
I feel better already. A giant squid has been filmed in the deeps.
So beautiful and graceful. Watch how the tentacles uncoil and spread out to caress the lure, before jetting away into the darkness. That’s an image to linger in your dreams.
Watch with the sound off. The Hu-Man is shrill and annoying. Yeah, she ends up bleeding a little bit, but I have zero sympathy.
They’ve established a beachhead in Wales, where swarms of cephalopods have begun their march inland.
Hey, lady! Yeah, you with the white nail polish! Do not tickle and mock Squad Captain Oi’sh’sh’schlick! We see you, we’re marking you down as a target!
When the marine squadrons link up with the spider cavalry, they’re going to be unstoppable.
Ooh, you can get it on a t-shirt or a mug or a whole bunch of things!
And she’s got one for arachnids!
Now if only there were a similar poster for all the spider families — there are 117 of them, last I looked. I tell you, the World Spider Catalog is not the place to start studying their taxonomy.
After a rough, sleepless night and waking up with a ferocious back ache, I’m thinking bones are more trouble than they’re worth. I’m going to have them all replaced with hydraulics.
