Glub glub glub!!

It's awfully ---EXCITING )(-ER----E

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We’re not squidding around, these two-month-old bigfin reef squid are pretty cute. Learn more about these color-changing cephalopods #CephalopodWeek

[montereybayaquarium]

The cephalo-bration begins! What’s your favorite tentacled, color-changing animal?

This #CephalopodWeek we’re joining Science Friday and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in bringing you the latest and greatest stories from the tentacled world!

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Dumbo octopus

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OMG LOOK AT IT.

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mer-se

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Phyllodesmium serratum by Klaus Stiefel

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An aquarium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada offers guests the chance to sleep there overnight from 8 PM to 9 AM for $99 per person. [x]

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WHAT?! colossalstrawberry

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omg???

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omg Hayley?? is this the Ripleys?? I wanna go!!!!!

[colossalstrawberry]

I wann a go too!! SQUAD SLUMBER PARTY AT THE AQUARIUM????? truffleshuffle12 technicolourtardis princefili sonsoferebor thirdeyetwostops

[realmonstrosities]

The Cockatoo Flounder usually looks like a perfectly ordinary flounder, well-camouflaged against the silty seabed between Australia and Japan.

But when camouflage fails, weird measures are called for.

As they make their escape, they extend numerous long, bright white filaments from under their head. Not only does it make this 20 cm long fish look bigger, but the filaments also appear disturbingly reminiscent of sticky sea cucumber guts.

It’s a really cool beard, anyway.

…Video: liquidguru

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Ägypten 2014 by ajne1974

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Angry Cuttlefish by Klaus Stiefel

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Large Cuttle by Klaus Stiefel

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Feeding by Klaus Stiefel

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Eastern Spiny Gurnard by Klaus Stiefel

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Careful crows watch their tools

Researchers at the University of St Andrews have discovered that crows store their tools when they don’t need them - just like people.

New Caledonian crows are famous for using stick tools to get insects out of tree holes and other hiding places. Crows hold the tools in their bill when foraging but need to put them down to eat.

In the first study to look at how animals (non-human) avoid misplacing their tools, researchers discovered that crows carefully place them under their feet to use again later. If foraging at a height rather than on the ground, crows look after their tools more carefully and even seem to get really upset when they accidentally drop them. 

Tool ‘safekeeping’ may be very important as crows can spend more time on the critical business of finding food, rather than wasting time making replacements.

Read more

Image credit: Jessica van der Wal 

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i love giant squid documentaries bc they’re always like “it’s just so big but we just… can’t fuckign f ind it??? ? where is this fucking squid? ? ? ?? ???”

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it’s like a little spaceship 

[matulaspatula]

I can’t stop giggling

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don’t know where I’m going, just gotta get dere

[sixpenceee]

X-rays of a Hammerhead Shark (Source)

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[manhood]

This animal needs to decide if it wants to be a fish or a butterfly you can’t be both

[popiko]

it can be whatever it wants as long as its happy

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strangebiology

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It’s a red gurnard, a species of sea robin! And if you think that’s weird, look at how sea robins walk: 

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‘Surrounded’.