Cephalopod Science Blogs

Just hatched Wunderpus photogenicus paralarvae. So super cool, laid in captivity at Roy Caldwell’s lab at UCB, and yes, I am trying really hard to keep them alive and through settlement (though the odds of success are traditionally roughly if not equal to zero). For more info on Wunderpus click here for an article from several years ago or join TONMO and check out the exotics forum. And just for fun, here is a pic of an adult so you can see why got it scientific ...

From Advanced Aquarist http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog...mboyants-video
and
http://packedhead.net/2011/fascinating-flamboyants/

We shot this video last week, and even though the footage is shaky, and made slightly more so in the 60's editing style, it still shows some pretty amazing behaviors of one of the most fascinating of all the fascinating cuttlefish, Metasepia sp. This female, and two males, are ...

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 ...

The stargazer, Uranoscopus sulphureus, eyes a potential meal passing over the muck

In stark contrast to the beautiful many-colored coral reefs of the Philippines, muck diving is a lot like being on the moon. You float over seemingly endless plains of desolate grey substrate. The major difference is the life; here in the ‘center of the center of marine biodiversity’ the silty ...