Happy World Octopus Day! The giant Pacific octopus explores its world using touch and smell, thanks to the thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors that line the rims of its suckers.
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Octopus eye Octopus at Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, Sydney by pwnell
OCTOPUS BEAK
This perfect gradient from soft to hard tissue is seen almost nowhere else in nature, and prevents the beak from being easily torn loose without a skeleton to connect with.
I’m not an expert but I like hands a lot so hopefully some of this was helpful!
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Pools of amazingly clear water in New South Wales.
Looks like a mermaid’s home.
I’m not going anywhere near that pool it’s probably full of kelpies and selkies and all sorts of drown your ass types of spirits
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#octopus #science (at Seacoast Science Center)
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