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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Happy Easter!
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Happy Mothers Day!
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Happy Diwali!
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Honoring our veterans
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Have you turned off your electronic device?
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Hey, you two in the front!
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Banggai cardinalfish with sea anemone
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It’s oh so quiet
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Blue walls of Chefchaouen, Morocco
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Entoloma hochstetteri mushroom at Lake Mahinapua, New Zealand
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
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The Belogradchik Rocks in Bulgaria
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Andermatt village in the Alps, Switzerland
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Guilin and Lijiang River National Park, China
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An oceanic valentine
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Winter Olympics in Beijing
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World Oceans Day
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Happy Father s Day
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Point Reyes National Seashore in California
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Celebrating the UN’s International Day of Families
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Nesting season for the leatherbacks
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It s not always sunny in Abu Simbel…
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Dressed to impress
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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Falling for Rioja
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Gem State views
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Honoring the first American woman in space
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Corfu at night, Greece
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Moeraki Boulders, South Island, New Zealand
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Daiichi Tadami River Bridge, Fukushima, Japan
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