#CephalopodWeek

[mbari-blog]

Cephalopod Week wouldn't be complete without at least one flapjack octopus video! 🥰

MBARI’s robotic submersibles often spot this little octopus resting on the mud, its orange body resembling a flat, fluffy pancake. When startled by a predator, a flapjack octopus perks up and swims to safety by flapping its stubby fins, pulsing its webbed arms, pushing water through its funnel for jet propulsion—or all three at once. When the coast is clear, it stretches its webbed arms and parachutes back to the seafloor.

[arthistoryanimalia]

A second and very different piece from the Brooklyn Museum for #CephalopodWeek:

Jesse Krimes (b. 1982) Blackwater, 2021 Assorted textiles Brooklyn Museum

“To counter the dehumanizing isolation of incarceration, Jesse Krimes works collaboratively with currently and formerly incarcerated individuals to create artworks out of old clothing and textiles that evoke memories of home. The artist developed his own practice while serving a six-year prison sentence. In this work, Krimes regards the tentacled animal as "a panoptic state of surveillance" and alludes to the eugenic and white supremacist ideas embedded in American zoology. The title, Blackwater, refers to a prison in Florida.”

[amnhnyc]

It’s #CephalopodWeek! Today, let’s take a look at one of the Museum’s most dramatic scenes: the Squid and the Whale diorama. It depicts the life-and-death battle between a giant squid and one of its only known predators, the sperm whale. We know these deep-sea struggles occur because pieces of squid, such as their hard beaks, have been found in sperm whales’ stomachs. Sperm whale skin also frequently bears circular scars left by the toothed suckers on the squid’s tentacles. See the mesmerizing diorama up close in the Hall of Ocean Life! 🦑 Cephalopod Week is hosted by @scifri. 🐳 Photo: © AMNH (at American Museum of Natural History) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQfSGJZAitR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ashmoleanmuseum]

Cephalopod Week

This week is #CephalopodWeek, and today, we bring you this cephalopod who has seen better days.⁠

The beautiful shell of this poor Nautilus was too much temptation for the artists and craftspeople of the Renaissance and Baroque period who fashioned indulgent Nautilus cups from gold, silver and real Nautilus shells. ⁠

Though they have survived five mass extinctions, Nautilus are now endangered by their harvesting by the shell trade. In more ways than one, ornaments made from Nautilus shells belong in museums.⁠⁠

[ericnyquist]

Cephalopod Week 2017 for @scifri #cephalopodweek #publicradio #octopus #giantsquid #dumbooctopus #ericnyquist #illustration #drawing https://www.instagram.com/p/CBtH8HWjVb6/?igshid=1d7gqt7f0njfr

[uispeccoll]

It’s Cephalopod Week!

To celebrate these predatory mollusks, we look at some of our favorite pulp magazine covers from Rusty Hevelin’s collection that feature various cephalopods. These creatures are amazing and continue to inspire writers, artists, and scientists today.  

Learn more about cephalopod’s at Science Friday: https://www.sciencefriday.com/spotlights/cephalopod-week/

[geekbroll]

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The Wacky Wall Crawlers part of a 1984 Apple Jacks commercial I found on YouTube. I was really thinking it was Cap'n Crunch and the octopus had a pig nose. See #UnderwaterMovie. It's awesome. #wackywallcrawler #wackywallcrawlers #octopus #cephalopod #cephalopodweek #cthulhu #applejacks #kelloggs #capncrunch #cerealprize #cerealprizes #freeinside #freeinspeciallymarkedboxes #underwater (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7KZAatBCHP/?igshid=z4am8oft0yvh

[othmeralia]

Don’t start fights with an octopus, they come well armed.

Happy cephalopod week! This illustration is from a Portuguese translation of Georges Cuvier’s  Elemental Framework of the Natural History of the Animals.

Quadro elementar da historia natural dos animaes. Tr. em portuguez por Antonio d'Almeida, 1815.

[drewtoon]

It’s cephalopod awareness week. This drawing contains a cephalopod. Now you are aware. Inktober day 12 • • • #picturebooks #kidlit #characterdesign #childrensillustration #illustrationartists #illustragram #childrensbookillustration #cartoon #visualdevelopment #procreate #creative #design #comics #sketchbook #inktober #cephalopodweek https://www.instagram.com/p/B3kjgnAjzhC/?igshid=183fcmaz4jzog

[christianbaileyceramics]

Since it is cephalopod week and I have a fascination with those lovable overlords. Here is yet another octopus drawing on a coffee mug. This drawing is based on a phot I took of a common octopus at Fort Pickens in Pensacola, Florida. Enjoy and remember to appreciate our cephalopod overlords. . . . . #cephalopodweek #cephalopod #octopus #drawing #clay #mug #florida #pensacola #artteachersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BzI0N9egbPz/?igshid=3lif80q423al

[baggageclam]

It's the start of #Cephalopodweek, and I couldn't be happier. . . #octopus #cephalopod #invertebrates #animals #wildlife #nature #ocean #marine #sea #humor #funny #drawing #sketch #sketches #watercolor #digitalart #art #drawings #science #SciComm https://www.instagram.com/p/By_RBe4gJ6o/?igshid=1je03kn4q0xcy

[mbari-blog]

When you realize you're on camera, so you casually turn to your good side 😉📸

This midwater octopus, Japetella diaphana, looks more like a deep-sea squid than an octopus. Unlike other octopuses, Japetella lives exclusively in the midwater at depths of a few hundred to over 1,000 meters (about 500 to 3,000 feet).

This charming cephalopod is found throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world's oceans. Its skin is covered with chromatophores, which are pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells that allow it to change color.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #CephalopodWeek, seen today at Brooklyn Museum:

Object from Crete - Minoan Decorated Jug Late Minoan IB Period, c. 1575-1500 BCE From Lower Egypt; presumably found in Egypt but made on Crete Pottery, painted

“This vessel, one of the world's most famous works of Minoan pottery, shows five mollusks called nautili [argonauts] floating above the sea floor. The sinuous, undulating lines of the water plants and nautili tentacles clearly demonstrate the Minoans' love of bold, sweeping designs. For the Egyptians, Minoan painting must have provided an exotic contrast to their own balanced, ordered designs.”

[neaq]

Feeding time is fun time too! Our intelligent giant Pacific octopuses enjoy interacting with our aquarists as much as they like the tasty snacks. #cephalopodweek #octopus #newenglandaquarium (at New England Aquarium)

[loynosca]

#CephalopodWeek gives us an excuse to share one of our favorites, this wondrous “poulpe” originally from Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des mollusques, but known to us thanks to its inclusion in the Harry F. Barrell Scrapbook from the Anthony Stanonis Travel Scrapbook and Diary Collection. It’s a cephalo-bration! (Wish we could take credit for that one, but Science Friday deserves your applause).

[alien-sunset]

Squidly, Squidly! 🦑 Happy #cephalopodweek !