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!
Celebrate Cephalopods
October 8-12
Octopus, Cuttlefish, Squid and More! cephalopodday.org ≈(. 。.)≈
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!
I wrote up a FAQ on the topic, which I hope will be entertaining even for those without cephalopodiatric ambitions …
An extremely abbreviated evolutionary history of cephalopods, starring our friend the Nautilus.
To celebrate this most awesome of days, I shared a short excerpt from my squid racing novel over at Squid A Day.
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
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
To celebrate Octopus Day, find out about the enormous oddity of Haliphron atlanticus!
Noadi’s Art is running a giveaway and sale in honor of International Cephalopod Awareness Day. Head over to the blog at noadi.blogspot.com to enter to win this necklace:

There is also a sale going on all weekend in the Noadi’s Art Etsy shop, 15% off all squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and nautilus jewelry.
Seemed like a natural place for Cephalopod Awareness Days to spill into… so here’s a page on Facebook to share the cephalo-love! Many thanks and all due credit to TONMO for this wonderful initiative! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cephalopod-Awareness-Days/161371570620612
On October 8th and 9th, as part of a large scale street video projection called Port Inhabited (http://inhabited.illuminart.com.au), we will feature images of Giant Cuttlefish as our celebration of cephalopod day! Its especially important as our Giant Cuttlefish are under threat because their spawning grounds are the potential site of a large scale desalination plant for a uranium mine. Visit the site http://www.cuttlefishcountry.com to find out more.