Btw, no cephalopods were harmed in the making of this photo! The little squid is still in the water, in a petri dish, with the dime underneath the dish.
No, but seriously, listening to Ghost on a bad day - to me - feels like having a bandaid put on the soul and the forehead kissed ever so gently, and I’m not one to get like that usually but it hurts my feelings a LITTLE BIT when people are like “meh” every time the album is brought up, especially among Devy fans.
During sex, the male of most octopus species stays as far away from the female’s mouth as possible to avoid becoming a post-coital snack. Or so scientists thought. A detailed study from a team at the University of California, Berkley, on the larger Pacific striped octopus shows that a couple will mate beak to beak and even eat side by side, too (most octopi live alone). Read more here.
