You might look twice if you passed by this Technicolor sea creature gliding through the ocean water. In celebration of World Octopus Day, we"re marveling at a photograph of the rarely seen blanket octopus, near Palm Beach, Florida. The blanket octopus gets its common name from the sheets of webbing that stretch between some arms of the female, like the one pictured here. When threatened, it spreads out its arms, creating a blanketlike silhouette to intimidate would-be attackers.
An underwater rainbow
Today in History
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
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Canadian Thanksgiving
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Sea Otter Awareness Week
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American Wetlands Month
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Lights, camera, Sundance
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Welcome to ‘Hollywood North’
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A courtyard scene from Spain
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It’s not a pinecone, it’s a pangolin
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New Year s Day
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Earth Day
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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High seas commerce
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It s National Camera Day. Get the picture?
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Beautiful baobabs
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The Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve in Siberia, Russia
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Rice processing in Bangladesh
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Palouse farmland, Washington state
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Fibonacci Day
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Celebrate International Women’s Day
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World Children s Day
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Christmas Bird Count
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Rainbow Mountain
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Happy Mother’s Day
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20 years later
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Seville celebrates first world tour
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It s National Hispanic Heritage Month
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The tortoise and the finch
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Río Negro, Amazon basin, Brazil
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Happy Thanksgiving
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Batten down the hatches