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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 16/10/2026
🌍 46 countries 🔬 1000 scientists⁣ ✊ Indigenous Peoples⁣ 💻 Major tech companies⁣ 📝 Over 5 million people…⁣ are now saying no to deep sea mining. Join them >> act.gp/4kMRxxI #StopDeepSeaMining
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Stop deep sea mining - Greenpeace International
The deep ocean is one of the world’s largest, most fragile, and most important ecosystems. We need a global moratorium to stop the launch of this destructive new extractive industry.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Harlequin Shrimp (Hymenocera picta) is a brightly colored marine crustacean known for its white body marked with large pink, purple, and orange-red spots: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
🌊 I raised my voice for ocean protection. Help me turn up the volume by doing the same! One voice can start a wave. Thousands can become a roar. Together we can become an ocean protection choir. 📣💙 act.gp/3Uypxpj
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Be the voice of the Ocean - Greenpeace International
Help me turn up the volume by doing the same! One voice can start a wave. Thousands can become a roar. Together we can become an ocean protection choir. 📣💙
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Blue runners for daze 😎🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 #bluerunner #school #jack #coralcitycamera
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Telescope octopus (genus Amphitretus) are a small, gelatinous and translucent octopus that lives out in the open ocean. They have a mantle length of 9 cm and have unique tubular eyes that resemble a telescope, hence their common name. #OCTOtober 🐙🎥Schmidt Ocean
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blackmanta1978.bsky.social @blackmanta1978.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
this is terrible! #endangered #sharks #laws #poachers
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‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums
While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 15/10/2026
📣 Momentum is building for the United Nations climate conference, or @cop31.bsky.social! WHOI, @scrippsocean.bsky.social + partners are converging ocean climate advocacy and action at the #OceanPavilion for the 5th year in a row. 🌊 Learn more: go.whoi.edu/blue-cop #ForOurBluePlanet
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Pacific Whale Watch Association @pacificwhalewatchassociation.com · 15/10/2026
This isn't your average seal or sea lion. This is a northern fur seal, a somewhat rare visitor to the Salish Sea. Naturalist Sam Wallace of Outer Island Excursions photographed this inquisitive youngster last week near Washington's Dungeness Spit. Look at those long ear flaps!
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Shark Safety WA @sharksafetywa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A perfect storm: how the super El Niño is devastating the fishing industry www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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A perfect storm: how the super El Niño is devastating the fishing industry
Peru’s anchoveta have made up about a 10th of the entire global commercial fishing catch since 1970, more than any other fish. A combination of warming seas and decades-long overfishing spells disaste...
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 15/10/2026
Did you know that the common periwinkle is actually an invasive species? Originally from Europe, humans accidentally brought this hitchhiker to North American waters, where it has changed intertidal ecosystems through its eating habits. 📸 Brady Clarke
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 15/10/2026
A lovely story out of Tanzania following Husna Aminu's efforts to protect coral reefs and train a new generation of nature defenders. 💚🌍💪 www.dw.com/en/the-women... #ProtectTheOceans
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The women helping Tanzania's coral reefs recover
Off Tanzania's coast, Husna Aminu trains female divers and grows coral fragments in underwater nurseries. Her team works with local fishers to restore coral reefs that support marine life and liveliho...
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NRDC @nrdc.org · 15/10/2026
We’re all paying the price of climate change, but we shouldn’t have to foot the whole bill. These new laws will help protect communities before the next disaster strikes and fend off some of the worst damage. 👇🧵
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The largest octopus species is the Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini). The largest individual reportedly had a weight of 272 kg and arm span of 9.6 m, but your typical adult is much smaller. They are also one of the longer living octopuses, being able to live up to 5 years. #OCTOtober
A Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) clinging to a large rocks on the poking out of the water. The camera is above the water and you can see the shiny, bumpy surface of the water. The octopus is stretching its arms into the shallow water on the rock. Just behind the rock is a steep drop off of a couple metres. The water as a beautiful blue colour. The octopus is a deep orangish red colour, and it appears to have its papillae raised.A close-up of a giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) showing longitudinal folds on the body (which look like big, raised wrinkles) and its raised paddle-like papillae. The close up is focused on its head and mantle. The octopus is facing towards the left and is a dark red to reddish orange to orange colour.A juvenile Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) in a plastic container. It is translucent and reddish orange, with dark red chromatophores. It looks squishy and cute.A juvenile Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) crawling on the seafloor. The seafloor is rocky, with the rock being about the size of the octopus (although not as long) and there is a layer of algae covering most of it. The octopus has its mantle deflated and pointing at a shallow upward angle, and the octopus is reaching forward with one arm while the others are pointed out around it. The arms are wavy, with their tips curled. The octopus is a orangish red colour.
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#OCTOtober
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon to save California’s kelp forests Team works to restore the sunflower sea star as 95% of these key underwater ecosystems have been decimated along the Pacific coast in past decade www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
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Scientists deploy a 24-armed secret weapon to save California’s kelp forests
Team works to restore the sunflower sea star as 95% of these key underwater ecosystems have been decimated along the Pacific
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Octopuses are solitary creatures, which is pretty understandable when most species engage in cannibalism. However, larger Pacific striped octopus are an exception. This undescribed species has been known to live in groups of up to 40 octopuses and mates in a beak-to-beak position. #OCTOtober
A Larger Pacific striped octopus standing in a tank with two arms with its suckers visible. It is leaning on a plastic tube with two of its arms, and its striped mantle is drooping down, facing the camera. One arm is reaching back behind the mantle and is curled, making it look like the octopus is deep in thought.A Larger Pacific striped octopus partially hiding in a glass container. It is rather small. Its suckers are visible. It is mostly an off white colour.A larger Pacific striped octopus in a tank, leaving a conch shell to grab a shrimp. The octopus is mostly a dark brown with a shade of red or purple, with some sandy brown spots and stripes, especially on the top of its head and mantle. Its mantle narrows at the tip. You can see two rows of suckers on its arms. The shrimp is translucent and yellow.Two larger Pacific striped octopus mating in a beak-to-beak "kissing" position. They are gripping each others faces, and the rest of their arms are curled away. The octopus on the left is lightly coloured, with a sandy beige colour, and the octopus on the right has a dark reddish brown colour. Where their stripes are, they have darker colours, a light brown and a dark red respectively.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 11/10/2026
Droughts, floods, storms, bleached corals... what, exactly, is El Niño? How will it impact you—and communities and ecosystems around the world? Find out from ocean experts! 📲Watch the Ocean Encounters replay on YouTube: go.whoi.edu/el-nino-replay
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 11/10/2026
📣 Calling all post-docs and recent PhDs! 🧑‍🔬 We’re currently seeking applicants with background in math, engineering, economics, policy, and physical and biological sciences for 18-month appointments with a WHOI advisor. 📲 Find out more and apply by Oct. 15: go.whoi.edu/pdscholarship
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The big-eye jellyhead (Inopinoteuthis magna), in addition to having a very silly name, is thought to be the largest species of cirrate octopus, a group of octopus with small tendrils called cirri, fins and an internal shell. One specimen of this species had a total length of 1.7 m. #OCTOtober
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Puget Sound Whale Sightings @pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🐦‍⬛🖤🕷️ Sat, Oct 10 Our beloved solo-adventuring orca Indy is still around, currently in the upper Tacoma Narrows heading south. And grays are continuing to feed & hold presence up in the Whidbey Basin. Good luck! 📷 Sharing again this excellent ID collage of Indy ♥️. By Ryan Dicks Sept 2026. #psws
Right and Left side ID image collage of Indy the orca: showing are his saddle patches and each side of his dorsal fin rising in silvery gray water.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 10/10/2026
#AfricanPenguinDay 🐧 We are losing our penguins Industrial fishing is emptying our oceans of fish and destabilising ecosystems that have survived for thousands of years This simply cannot go on We need to stop these greedy industrial fishing companies plundering our waters 👉 act.gp/42igFpk
Image of African penguins contrasted with an image of industrial fishing
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Argonauts (genus Argonauta) are a genus of pelagic octopuses like to ride around on jellyfish and salps. Female argonauts have a "shell" that is actually an egg case that they live in. They are also known as paper nautiluses, although true nautiluses are actually named after them. #OCTOtober
A female Brown Argonaut (Argonauta hians) riding a red bell jellyfish. The argonaut is sitting on the bell of the jellyfish, and the jellyfish is swimming downward, so the whole thing is upside down. The jellyfish has a dark orange bell and light orange arms. The argonaut has a wavy, spiral egg case that it wears like a shell. The egg case is a off white with black or grey on the outer rim. The argonaut itself is mostly in the egg case but you can see its head and part of its arms sticking out of the egg case. Its arms are sucker side out, and it has a bright orange eye with a round black pupil.A female Noury's Argonaut (Argonauta nouryi) being held by a person in an orange bucket. The octopus is in its "shell". The "shell" is actually an egg case and is white and bumpy. It forms a spiral shape but that is not visible in the photo. The photo is showing the opening where the octopus is. The octopus is a dark red, almost purple, colour with white flesh that just peeks out behind the chromatophores. It has most of its body in the "shell" and its arms are reaching backwards into the shell, exposing the bottom of its arms. The offset two rows of suckers are visible. Its eye is just peeking out from the shell on the left side, at it has a round pupil. On the front right, its siphon is poking out from between its arms and its opening its sort of shaped like a gridiron football, making it look a mouth. If you see the siphon as a mouth, it makes the octopus have a confused, dazed expression.A male Knobbed Argonaut (Argonauta nodosus) riding a jellyfish. It is very small All of its arms are visible, including its hectocotylus. It is translucent, with its mantle, siphon and arms being clear but its head being white and more opaque. Its eye is round and silvery. The jellyfish is pointed to the right, and the argonaut is hanging onto that side. The jelly is transparent and clear with some orange bits visible through the flesh. There are numerous shrimps (or similar looking crustaceans) swimming around. The water is black.A Brown Argonaut (Argonauta hians) riding a translucent jellyfish. The argonaut has a spiral "shell" (actually an egg case) that is it wearing, and its mantle is in the egg case, and its arms are reaching back into the "shell." The shell has a wavy series of edges. The parts of the arms that are exposed have their suckers sticking out. Its mantle is sticking out on the left side. The argonaut has round silvery eyes, its body is white with purple chromatophores, and a beige shell. The jellyfish is clear and has frilly edges. The background is dark.
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sperm whales face an uncertain future as their habitats shrink: www.earth.com/animals/sper...
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Sperm whales face an uncertain future as their habitats shrink
Climate change may shrink sperm whale habitat, while some ocean areas could remain suitable through the century ahead.
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A giant clam kept a 30-year diary of the Great Barrier Reef’s climate in its shell: www.earth.com/climate/gian...
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A giant clam kept a 30-year diary of the Great Barrier Reef’s climate in its shell
A giant clam shell from the Great Barrier Reef recorded sea temperatures and rainfall month by month for about 30 years in the early 1800s.
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✨🦇Artistgem🦇✨ - Commissions: OPEN @artistgem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ancient fish species that have gone unchanged for years my beloved
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Repost by @Rainmaker1973 Seahorses dance with their partners every morning to strengthen the bond between them. Click to see original repost
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Animal Defenders International @animaldefenders.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🐙 TODAY IS WORLD OCTOPUS DAY 🐙 Octopuses are intelligent, mysterious & vital to our oceans. Yet many suffer from overfishing, bycatch & cruel octopus farms. Protecting them means protecting ocean biodiversity. #FriendsNotFood #SaveTheEarth
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 09/10/2026
HUGE NEWS: A group of top civil rights & free speech lawyers are calling for the $345 MILLION verdict against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace in the US to be overturned. Here’s what really happened and why EVERY activist is at risk 🧵
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Manatee w no propeller scars ✅ Healthy staghorn coral thicket ✅ Water below bleaching temps ✅ Juvenile grunts and snappers ✅ Life is good in Coral City 😎 ✅✅✅ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #staghorncoral #acropora #coralcitycamera
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Divers free a whale shark from rope that enwrapped it for years: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/interestin...
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 09/10/2026
🌀🌡️ As Hurricane Isaias barrels towards the Alabama coast, Argo floats are picking up near-record sea surface temperatures of 30°C-31°C. Hurricanes are fueled by ocean temperatures over 27°C. 📲Learn how ocean observations help us stay one step ahead of these storms: go.whoi.edu/hurricane-info
A meteorological tracking map showing a hurricane’s projected path through the Gulf of Mexico toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. 

The storm's path is marked by concentric circles at its center, near the Tropic of Cancer, with a black track line extending north-northeast. Two thick blue lines frame the projected cone of uncertainty. 

The wind field is represented by color-coded concentric bands extending outward from the storm center:
- **Purple (center):** High-intensity core.
- **Red/Orange:** Strong winds.
- **Yellow/Green (outer bands):** Decreasing wind intensity.

The outer green band stretches north, making landfall across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. A red line highlights a section of the coastline indicating a warning zone. Numerous blue buoy icons with identification numbers are scattered across the Gulf of Mexico, with several positioned directly in the storm’s path. Time stamps such as "1200 UTC OCT 08" mark the storm’s progression along its track.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 08/10/2026
Isn’t it crazy how there’s always money for war and data centers, but not for education, healthcare, and climate action?
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Coconut Octopuses (Amphioctopus marginatus) are known to use tools. They will carry around shells in order to deploy them as a mobile shelter. It's nice to have some armour when you're a soft and squishy mollusk They also are known to sometimes walk around on two limbs. Take that Plato! #OCTOtober
A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) sitting in a horizontal bivalve shell on the sea floor, and it is lifting the top half of the shell with one arm. The octopus looks very annoyed, and is staring at the camera. The octopus is a dark brownish red, with light orange on the bottom of its arms and white suckers. The inside of the shell is white, and the outside of the shell has dark red or orange stripes alternating with white ridges.A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) inside a glass bottle trying to pull in a crab it has caught, but the crab is too big. The octopus has its arms outstretched and grabbing the sides of the bottle. The octopus is off white with some dark brown through its eyes. A lot of its suckers have a light blue tinge. There is a bivalve shell in the bottle. The crab is larger than the octopus. It appears to have a crack in its shell, probably where the octopus bit it. It is facing away from the camera. Its left arms and a small part of its body are pulled into the bottle. It has a mottled batter on its body with some blue at the ends of its arms. The sea floor is sandy.A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) hiding in a glass jar lying in the seabed. The photo is taken facing the opening. The octopus is sticking its head and the top of its arms out of the jar. The suckers are clearly visible and the octopus is giving puppy dog eyes. The rest of its arms and body is in the jar.A Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus trying to leave its collection of shells for a larger shell, which contains another coconut octopus. The first octopus is exposed, and is straddling between the two sets of shells. The original set appears to be three, smallish shells. Two arms are reaching into the new shell. The octopus is purple, with little beige bits breaking up the purple. Its sucked are visible. Its mantle is round. The second octopus is is sitting in two, large mismatched shells. It is quite snug, with its suckers holding on to both shells. It is purple, with a lavender colour around the eyes and white around the suckers.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 07/10/2026
What, exactly, is #ElNiño? How will it impact you—and people around the world? Find out from WHOI’s Alex Kinsella, Deepti Singh of @wsunews.bsky.social and @calpoly.bsky.social ’s Ben Ruttenberg TONIGHT at #OceanEncounters! 📲Sign up for TONIGHT's live Zoom event: go.whoi.edu/2026-el-nino
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The world's oyster reefs could add $12 trillion to planetary health each year—if they were better managed phys.org/news/2026-10...
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The world's oyster reefs could add $12 trillion to planetary health each year—if they were better managed
A new study shows that the world's oyster reefs are a precious resource that's vastly underestimated and underutilized. The authors set out to calculate the reefs' potential gross ecosystem product (G...
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KM Apothecary @apothcarysees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When I saw Ghost, the Pacific Giant octopus at the Aquarium of the Pacific she was entering senescence and slowing down. I captured her color with airbrush, so now she has a portrait.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 07/10/2026
One researcher's biofouling is another person’s delicacy! Depending on where they come from, when they are harvested, and their size, goose barnacles can range from about $13 to $130 per pound in some markets! (Scientists do not harvest from these buoys.) Have you had goose barnacles?
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Blue-ringed octopuses (genus Hapalochlaena) are the only cephalopod whose venomous bite is potent enough to kill a human. However, they are docile and won't bite unless provoked or hunting. So keep your distance and don't make them feel threatened or be a crustacean and you'll be safe. #OCTOtober
A Greater Blue-ringed Octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) swimming against a black background. Its mantle is relatively thin and the tip gets much thinner. The end of the mantle is out of focus. The octopus is looking at the camera, and it appears to be moving to the upper right, as most of its arms are trailing in that direction. One arms is going back and another is in front of its face and curving around. The arms have two rows of suckers that are offset. The octopus is yellow with many blue iridescent rings.A photo of a southern blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa) striking a pose. It is leaning to the left (camera's left), with left arm raised up and  with half of it curled, and another one of it's left arms pointing left and with a quarter of it curled. The octopus is a pale brown-yellow with black patches with iridescent blue rings in the centre.A photo of a Blue-lined Octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) on the sandy sea floor among sea grass. The octopus appears to be moving, with its arms curled backwards. Its mantle is tear drop shaped or like a milkweed seed pod, gong to a rounded point. It is has its papillae raised. It is a pale yellow colour, with black or dark brown areas. Inside the dark areas, are iridescent blue circles or lines.A Greater Blue-ringed Octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) walking. Two arms are touching the ground, but its other arms are tucked close and curled. It is yellow, with some white on the the tip of its mantle, head and centre upper arms. It is covered in iridescent blue rings. It has bumpy skin due to having its papillae raised.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 06/10/2026
What does it take to keep the nation’s deepest-diving crewed submersible running for over six decades? OnCape Magazine traces the WHOI-operated sub's evolution from its 1964 commissioning to its current work studying the deep sea. Read more from OnCape Magazine: go.whoi.edu/on-cape-mag
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As you probably guessed, the Seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) has EIGHT arms! The males' hectocotylus (specialized mating arm) is curled up in a pouch which, along with their large, gelatinous bodies, makes it look like only have seven arms, hence their common name. #OCTOtober
A seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) swimming while extending its arms. Webbing is between its arms and the tips of the arms are curled outwards. The rest of the octopus is gelatinousA seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) swimming while holding a jellyfish in its arms. It's arms are curled away from the jellyfish. The octopus is quite gelatinous and has a white colour, and the jelly fish is golden with short stingers.A view of a seven-armed octopus's (Haliphron atlanticus) mouth. Its arms are spread out, showing the messy row of suckers and webbing. You can see the octopus's eight arms. The octopus is orange with white suckers. It is swimming in a kelp forest.A seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) swimming towards the camera while extending its arms. Webbing is between its arms and the tips of the arms are curled outwards. The rest of the octopus is gelatinous. It is pink
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American Cetacean Society - Puget Sound @acs-ps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Join us on October 6th for our next chapter meeting! ACS National President, Uko Gorter will be our guest speaker. Details and here... www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Feeding a shark: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is our extraordinary 🌎 Why are we destroying it? Why are we killing whales in 2026? Polluting and warming oceans? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis #WarOnNature
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mass killing on an industrial scale Destruction of our oceans . Overfishing , pollution, warming #WarOnNature #Metacrisis #biosphere
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Someone get them some paint and an easel, STAT! The Brushtip Octopus (Eledone schultzei) has brush-like tendrils at the tips of its arms, hence its common name. The only arm that doesn't get a brush is the hectocotylus, the specialized mating arm that males have. #OCTOtober
A Brushtip Octopus (Eledone schultzei) crawling around some large rocks. Its arms are spread out and feeling all around. It has reddish orange wrinkly skin.A Brushtip Octopus (Eledone schultzei) in a white plastic container. It is small, so it appears to be a juvenile. It is dark red. Its mantle is leaning back resting on the bottom of the container, while its arms go out into different directions and curve in different waysA Brushtip Octopus (Eledone schultzei) sitting on some rocks. Its arms are held under it except for one arm which is reaching back behind the rock it is sitting on.. It has a light brown colour and bumpy skin.A drawing deplicting the brush like tips of Eledone schultzei's arms from "ROPER AND MANGOLD: REDESCRIPTION AND DESIGNATION OF APHRODOCTOPUS" page 59.. Note the scientific name is listed in the caption is Aphrodoctopus schultzei, a synonym for Eledone schultzei.
Caption text: Figure 1. Aphrodoctopus schultzei, holotype, 49 mm mantle length. a-b: Modification of sucker rims into digitate processes on tip of right arm IV. a. Oral view. b. Lateral view. c. Hectocotylized right arm III; ligula length, 4 mm.
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hermit crab wearing scaphopod shell 🦀 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 964 #samplinggap #MarineLife
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Sandy K @sandrako.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hell, no! Those oil companies are truly run by evil creatures...Signed!!! action.eko.org/a/germany-pr...
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Germany: Protect the North Sea and its harbour porpoises!
Harbour porpoises are among the smallest marine mammals, once abundant in the North Sea, and recognizable by their cute little squeaks they make when surfacing. They are shy and rely heavily on echolo
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Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 03/10/2026
Awwww! Another species wising up to the fact, that its natural enemy is billionaires…#natureIsHealing
Photo of sperm whale underwater.

"NEWS
Gang of sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific"
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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Milo the whale shark has done something no shark has done before in a tracking study. Over nearly a decade, he has travelled more than 54,700 kilometres, setting a record for the longest documented movement track of any shark! www.forbes.com/sites/meliss...
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Milo The Whale Shark Breaks World Record After Traveling 34,000 Miles
Milo the whale shark has now been tracked across more than 34,000 miles, setting a record for the longest movement record ever documented for a shark. Retagged five times over nearly a decade, his tra...
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