THESE ARE REAL & EXIST ON EARTH. I'm just learning about them, they're called Dendronotus nudibranchs. This one was filmed near Vancouver Island, BC. They can be nearly a foot long! They fold their bodies to swim & drift. 📽️Marcelo Johan Ogata bit.ly/3a8lVQP #DailyJelly

Team strawberry squid!!! 🦑❤️

Very cool deep water fish, an auchenipterid catfish (Gelanoglanis sp.). Very cool catfish indeed. Peruvian Amazon, Loreto, Peru, September 2017.

Vote for the strawberry squid for #Squidtember because my squid like eating them for some reason.

Don’t forget, fluorescent photophores and large eye lens! Also, has cool postures like the one in this picture and one where it’s completely straight.

Round 2 of the #Squidtember #BestSquid competition is complete! Let's take a moment to review what happened, and honor the squid who didn't make it to the semifinals

First we lost the Neon Flying Squid. Despite its winglike fins, super-shiny belly, and mini-elephant babies, Ommastrephes just couldn't hold its own against the Strawberry Squid. Congratulations, Histioteuthis, the cock-eyed strawberry squid!

Next we lost Octopoteuthis, who loses it tentacles as it grows up, loses its arm tips whenever it wants, but never loses the dating game. Go enjoy bisexual visibility month, Octopoteuthis, now that you don't have to compete anymore! Congrats to the reef squid, Sepioteuthis!

The match between Magnapinna and the Pygmy squid was a nailbiter! In the end we lost the pygmy squid, Kodama jujutsu, whose martial arts and homemade glue couldn't beat huge fins and long elbow-arms. Congratulations, Magnapinna!

In the final match we lost the whiplash squid, Idioteuthis. It was tentacle against tentacle, and the whiplash's retractable appendages took second place to Grimalditeuthis' dangling squid puppets! Congrats, Grimalditeuthis. Get those freaky puppets out of my face.

It’s the final round of #Squidtember 2024’s #BestSquid tournament. This has been so much fun to participate in. There’s been some huge surprises along the way, and so many #squidfacts. Vote now while you can. Choose your 🦑 overlord before they choose you. #squid #cephalopod

Bathyteuthis is a genus of squid hailing from a less talked about order of squid, Bathyteuthida. Bathyteuthis berryi is one of the few squid species that broods their eggs. #SQUIDtember

As #squidtember now draws to a close, here are some more origami to illustrate the central role that squids are expected to have in future marine ecosystes. What do you think of my origami squid OceanX ?

Want more details on all your favourite cephs? We're building CephRef, a new online home for the extensive Tree of Life cephalopod info. Please support via our GoFundMe gofund.me/5e00ac9a & view demo CephRef site at cephref.org Thank you & please share! 🦑🐙

To celebrate the close of another memorable #Squidtember, I made a size comp for all the #BestSquid contenders! *Some genera & species contain a fair amount of variation, so while these do represent known adult/subadult sizes, other arrangements could be equally accurate.

As we are wrapping up #Squidtember 2024, I wanted to share some squid origami that I made, as well as some instructions on how to make it yourself. If you decide to make it, please tag me and use the #Squidtember hashtag! 1/2

タコの日なので、触腕を欠き腕がタコと同じ8本のイカ、マッコウタコイカをですね(乗っ取ろうとするな)