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Meet the newest critter in our Tentacles special exhibition: The broadclub cuttlefish! This second-largest member of the cuttlefish family gets its name from it's two club-like tentacles, which it uses to strike and grab prey.
Thank you to staffer Jim Perdue for the photo!
Monster or metal detector? Learn how the hammerhead shark’s uniquely shaped head helps it navigate and hunt in our latest video podcast, just in time for tonight's #SharkWeek program! Nail down your hammerhead facts
Did you know that the guitarfish has been playing it flat for 100 million years? We now have three making beautiful music together in our Aviary. It gets its name from a long, pointed snout and guitar-shaped body. It lies in ambush with its eyes sticking out of the sand, waiting for careless crabs to wander by. Lunch! Learn more (Paul Vineyard photo)
Home sweet home! Watch our veined octopus set up camp in a glass jar. Learn more
The female giant Pacific octopus has laid eggs! Look for a cluster attached to rocks in the top left corner of the right-hand exhibit. A female lays tens of thousands of eggs, in strands of about 250.
It’s unlikely that these particular eggs are fertile or will produce baby octopuses, however. The urge to lay eggs comes just once, and usually marks the end of the octopus’s life. It’s all part of the natural cycle for these magical and intelligent animals.
Learn more about the giant Pacific octopus.
©Charlene Boarts
It takes two hands and a firm grip to hang onto the penguin chick that hatched in late August. After one week, it weighed 8.5 ounces; it now weighs more than eight times that much! We're working behind the scenes with the little guy, getting it comfortable around people as preparation for eventual re-introduction to the Splash Zone exhibit.
Learn more about our chick and this threatened species.
These (eight) arms are for hugging! We'd love to know: how would you handle an octopus embrace?
Learn more about the giant Pacific Octopus.
Learn more about “Tentacles,” our special exhibition opening next spring.
Hey, where'd he go? Can you find the octopus in the second shot? We're working behind the scenes with the algae octopus (and many other species) in preparation for "Tentacles," our special exhibition opening next spring.
Learn more.
