It's not surprising that with eight arms and inquisitive nature, the two-spotted octopus is pretty handy around its tank at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.

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The Vampire Squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. "vampire squid from hell") is a small, deep-sea cirrate cephalopod found throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world. Unique retractile sensory filaments justify the Vampire Squid's placement in its own order: Vampyromorphida (formerly Vampyromorpha), though it shares similarities ( Read more... )

So I just got done writing my site's longest article, three solid pages of Cephalopoda including a simple summary of the group and a rather arguable "top ten" of what I consider the most overall impressive. Most of them have probably been posted here at different times in the past, but surely at least one or two facts might be new-ish to any given ( Read more... )

So I checked the tags, and found one post about this little guy, the Mimic Octopus, but the video is tiny, with no explanation of anything, so heres a longer video of its cuteness.

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ISN'T IT JUST FREAKING AWESOME?

Six-legged 'hexapus' claimed as world first in Britain


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the Flamboyant Cuttlefish requires a good jam to go along with the psychadelic lightshow he sports on his back:

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that sexy bitch, the Spanish Dancer... cha cha cha!!

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via Squid.us, and Boing Boing, Promachoteuthis sulcus, a squid with very disturbing teeth.

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And to keep to one species to a post, and because Youtube seems to be screwing up, here's another octopus!

This is "Octopus (Abdopus) aculeatus". They stick their little legs up in the air, and scoot around pretending to be algae!

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