1. You’re Kraken Me Up

    Being an account of the recent “discovery” of an enormous dinosaur-eating cephalopod from the Triassic. It’s like they scheduled this to coincide with ICAD!

  2. How to Become a Cephalopodiatrist

    I wrote up a FAQ on the topic, which I hope will be entertaining even for those without cephalopodiatric ambitions …

  3. A Nautilus Bedtime Story

    An extremely abbreviated evolutionary history of cephalopods, starring our friend the Nautilus.

  4. Happy Squid Day! Have Some Novel.

    To celebrate this most awesome of days, I shared a short excerpt from my squid racing novel over at Squid A Day.

  5. Cephalopod Day #4: ‘Myth & Legend’ gallery on Facebook

    Here are a few classic illustrations of cephalopods of myth and legend! Don’t forget to become a fan of Cephalopod Awareness Days on facebook while you’re gazing in awe! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.163848410372928.38032.161371570620612&type=1

  6. animalworld: CHAMBERED or EMPEROR NAUTILUS (Nautilus pompilius) © Michele Hall A Chambered Nautilus skitters into deep water at Osprey Reef in Australia’s Coral Sea during the filming of the IMAX® film Under the Sea. The Chambered Nautilus, is the best-known and one of the largest species of nautilus, the largest recorded was nearly 11” on diameter. The shell, when cut away reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral. The shell exhibits countershading, being light on the bottom and dark on top. This is to help avoid predators because when seen from above, it blends in with the darkness of the sea, and when seen from below, it blends in with the light coming from above. They live from the Andaman Sea east to Fiji and southern Japan south to the Great Barrier Reef. The chambered nautilus has more primitive eyes than some other cephalopods; the eye has no lens and thus is comparable to a pinhole camera. The species has about 90 tentacles with no suckers, which is also different from other cephalopods. Chambered nautiluses have a pair of rhinophores, which detect chemicals, and use olfaction and chemotaxis in order to find their food (Shrimp, small fish and crustaceans). Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambered_Nautilus Other photos you may enjoy: Dumbo Octopus Glowing Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Flamboyant Cuttlefish - changing color (video)

    animalworld:

    CHAMBERED or EMPEROR NAUTILUS (Nautilus pompilius) © Michele Hall

    A Chambered Nautilus skitters into deep water at Osprey Reef in Australia’s Coral Sea during the filming of the IMAX® film Under the Sea.

    The Chambered Nautilus, is the best-known and one of the largest species of nautilus, the largest recorded was nearly 11” on diameter. The shell, when cut away reveals a lining of lustrous nacre and displays a nearly perfect equiangular spiral. The shell exhibits countershading, being light on the bottom and dark on top. This is to help avoid predators because when seen from above, it blends in with the darkness of the sea, and when seen from below, it blends in with the light coming from above.

    They live from the Andaman Sea east to Fiji and southern Japan south to the Great Barrier Reef.

    The chambered nautilus has more primitive eyes than some other cephalopods; the eye has no lens and thus is comparable to a pinhole camera. The species has about 90 tentacles with no suckers, which is also different from other cephalopods. Chambered nautiluses have a pair of rhinophores, which detect chemicals, and use olfaction and chemotaxis in order to find their food (Shrimp, small fish and crustaceans).

    Fact Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambered_Nautilus

    Other photos you may enjoy:

    Dumbo Octopus

    Glowing Hawaiian Bobtail Squid

    Flamboyant Cuttlefish - changing color (video)

  7. indiesquidkid: rhamphotheca: a juvenile female Winged Paper Nautilus (Argonauta hains) before it has grown the characteristic “paper shell” Argonauts are actually octopuses, but I don’t see any reason why they can’t be celebrated on Nautilus Day too!

    indiesquidkid:

    rhamphotheca:

    a juvenile female Winged Paper Nautilus (Argonauta hains) before it has grown the characteristic “paper shell”

    Argonauts are actually octopuses, but I don’t see any reason why they can’t be celebrated on Nautilus Day too!

  8. Watch Paper Nautilus videos to celebrate Cephalopod Day #2

    To celebrate day #2 of Cephalopod Awareness Days, we created a Youtube playlist featuring some fascinating footage of Paper Nautilus in action! You can see the animal swim, leave and return to its shell. The second video has an informative commentary also, describing some of the animal’s unusual attributes. Happy Cephalopod Awareness Day everyone! http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCD2DBDE57F146233

  9. Celebrating cephalopods with Kraken spiced Bananas Foster.

    Celebrating cephalopods with Kraken spiced Bananas Foster.

  10. The Weirdest Octopus

    To celebrate Octopus Day, find out about the enormous oddity of Haliphron atlanticus!