The Weirdest Octopus
Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
Today's post in honor of the 2011 Cephalopod Awareness Days. October 8th is Octopus Day.There are some weird octopuses out there, I'll grant you. The tiny-but-deadly blue-ringed octopus. The Dumbo octopus with its "ear flaps"--actually fins. But I propose that Haliphron atlanticus, the seven-arm octopus, outdoes them all.Color version (from TONMO) of Figure 1 from O'Shea 2004. read more
