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For the last week or so, the popular science press has been gushing over the announcement that a giant Triassic Kraken not only killed and ate giant ichthyosaurs, not only arranged their bones, but even arranged their bones in what may be the very first 'self portrait'. How exciting! A huge, intelligent, self aware cephalopod lived in the Triassic and actively hunted and ate 45 foot long ichthyosaurs - its a ...

http://www.sephora.com/go/sensorium/


Register for the SEPHORA SENSORIUM show! Come see my newest octopus bronze in Manhattan New York! Titled: 'CEPHALOPOD'

"I'm honored and humbled Firmenich selected me to participate in their Sensorium at Sephora. Showcasing my 'Cephalopod' bronze sculpture at a show presented by the leading fragrance house in the world at the leading beauty retailer in the world has been a thrilling experience for me. How fitting that ...

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In the three months since we put an Amphiocotpus marginatus we collected in the Philippines on display at the Steinhart Aquarium, the octopus, named Fontenelle, has been engaging visitors to the aquarium. Fontenelle is in plain sight 95% of the time, often in interesting 'lookout' poses, playing with toy squid and toy octopus, or moving its den from jars to bottles to clay pots while keeping an eye on the people watching its antics. This species is one of ...

Last week Godehard Kopp posted the video above of a Mimic Octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, and an un identifiable fish swimming amongst its arms at the divesite Jahir in the famous muck diving area of Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi Indonesia (the video of the octopus and fish starts at about. :44). Kopp followed the one octopus and fish for 15 minutes filming what appeared to be a previously unknown fish/octopus comensal relationship – a relationship in which one ...

The article about the work that Alison Petty has been doing with Metasepia at Atlantis Marine World is out. Fantastic stuff! Not much more to say than great work!

http://www.reefsmagazine.com/forum/r...uttlefish.html

Photo by Christopher Paparo