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Published 12 November, 2008
tagged Animals Cephalopods
Link roundup - Octopi and other marine molluscs
News story: Bored octopus juggles crabs, shorts out aquarium
Photos and bits of science: Octopi with forked tentacles
Art: Colourful cartoony octopi by Rawjawbone - sample: | ![]() |
Art: Meg Lyman draws, among other things, squids and other cephalopods, and they're often very cute.
samples:
![](http://th01.deviantart.com/fs27/150/f/2008/095/4/1/Striped_Pajama_Squid_ACEO_by_meglyman.jpg)
![](http://th09.deviantart.com/fs20/150/f/2007/302/4/7/Cuddlefish_by_meglyman.jpg)
![](http://th08.deviantart.com/fs20/150/f/2007/297/a/3/Squidlock_Holmes_by_meglyman.jpg)
![](http://th01.deviantart.com/fs22/150/f/2008/021/a/b/Unraveling_by_meglyman.jpg)
More Art:
![The Nefarious Octoparrot by rachaelm](http://th04.deviantart.com/fs24/150/f/2008/009/9/e/9e73faa936fe811e.jpg)
![Dragonbreath Sample by Ursula Vernon](http://th00.deviantart.com/fs37/150/f/2008/248/6/d/Dragonbreath_Sample_by_ursulav.jpg)
![](http://th08.deviantart.com/fs24/150/f/2007/332/8/6/Klimt__s_Octopus_by_ursulav.jpg)
Photo (via National Geographic, click for original) | |
Supposedly smiling octopus![]() |
looks more like this to me![]() |
Nudibranchs are, sort of, cute, colourful miniature sea slugs, as far as I can tell.
Have some sample photos by Raymond™ from his Nudibranch flickr stream
![Orange and fuzzy](http://www.ankewehner.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2411943815_b26f886a83_m.jpg)
![blue, yellow, black striped with red plumes](http://www.ankewehner.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2052200530_c9f1e8869c_m.jpg)
![red, black, white, blue and grumpy red, black, white, blue and grumpy](http://www.ankewehner.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2051418861_5932e6b382_m.jpg)
![blue, yellow and tiny](http://www.ankewehner.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2031979008_6a99f3f77d_m.jpg)
Nudi Pixel is a website dedicated to become a spotter's guide. They have over 10.000 (ten thousand) photos in their gallery.
more nudibranch links:
Another flickr set
Blog entry at Scienceray with a selection of photos
Blog tags: Found things Animals