Category: Gallery
All aboard the slug bus! This little kelp crawler is a Cockerell’s dorid nudibranch sea slug—and tucked away in the slug’s bulby branches is a red commensal scale worm …
Have a second screen needing some attent-ocean? Our nine daily live web cams are sure to bring pelagic magic to your workday, your bedtime routine, your living room, or …
mbari-blog: Go behind the scenes with our scientists and ROV pilots on June 30! We’ll be streaming #LivefromtheDeep on an MBARI expedition to Sur Ridge—an underwater oasis of deep-sea …
Well cephalopartners, it’s been inkredible but we have a sucker punch for you: #CephalopodWeek is all wrapped up for this year. We laughed, we cried, we learned that octopus …
Flamboyant cuttlefish are magical little mollusks with a mighty set of tentacles for capturing crunchy cuisine. Check out these dazzling divas as they dine on delightful delicacies. Source link
Just a reminder that octopus poop looks like one long noodle 🐙💩🍝 Source link
If you’re not too sure how cephalopods change color, don’t worry: It’s a chromatophoreign concept! Cephalopod skin makes light work out of camouflage and communication with specialized cells. Chromatophores …
Just a bb two-spot octopus cutethulhu to bless your timeline for Cephalopod Week Source link
Eye, eye, eye—it’s easy to sea that cephalopod eyes are something special. Unlike ours, cephalopod eyes have no blind spot, as their optic nerve sits neatly behind their retina. …
When a squid learns to write, that’s calamarigraphy! But seariously folks! The word “Calamari’’ derives from the Greek “kalamos” for “pen” and the Latin “calamarium” for “pen case”—referencing the …
