As part of “Worlds Oceans Week,” The Explorers Club and OctoNation are excited to announce the first global octopus photo competition, The Octographer! Photos will showcase the unique, captivating world of octopus diversity in hopes to bring excitement and awareness to ocean conservation. And let’s be real, octopus are in a league of their own!…
If you ever wondered what (or who) was the culprit behind cephalopods being able to change the color of their skin… you’ve found them. Meet the Fantastic Phore- chromatophore, iridophores, leucophores, and photophores! Cephalopod skin is the kind of thing you read about in science fiction books. It would be completely unbelievable if they weren’t…
Howdy Nation! In today’s post, we are going to be featuring our ‘Artist Spotlight’ of the week: Sujay Sanan. Inspired by his latest collection, Ultramarine, he will be showing us how he uses special drawing pencils to sketch a beautiful octopus while in metachrosis! Meet Sujay Sanan! Having grown up in the Himalayas and now…
From being able to regenerate an entirely new arm in just 2-4 months to having mini-brains in each arm to being able to smell, taste, and sense light, octopus arms are just one more topic we can all geek out about! With arms making up most of an octopus’s body and being useful for just…
Howdy Nation! In today’s post, we are going to be featuring our ‘Artist Spotlight’ of the week: Casey Parlette. A naturalist at heart, Casey credits his adventures and anthropological studies to inspire and influence his octopus art. He will be showing us how he made a large metal octopus as well as a wooden version!…
As the sun goes down and the reef descends into darkness, who comes out to play? The Caribbean Reef Octopus! This blue-green iridescent, shallow water octopus is one fancy cephalopod and a master of turning itself into a shimmery parachute to snare prey in the dead of night. Read up on all of these Caribbean…
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