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
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A summertime light show
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Tibetan New Year
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Marshland, Gloucester, MA
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A path to access
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The glass dome of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, Italy
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Oh, the places you’ll go
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Celebrating Flag Day
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Bungle Bungle Range in Purnululu National Park, Australia
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Happy Birthday, Eiffel Tower
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Monarch butterflies, Pismo Beach, California
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Manatees rebound
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Common raven
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Let’s go foraging
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Ring of fire solar eclipse
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The puffin-rabbit connection
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Happy Father s Day
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Keep calm and drive on (slowly)
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International Surfing Day
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Arbor Day
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Islands that turned the tide
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Arctic fox in Norway
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International Beaver Day
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Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
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Wayag Islands in the Raja Ampat Islands of Indonesia
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Colorful cows of the reef
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The Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Italy
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A towering view of the Pale Mountains
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Cinco de Mayo
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A keel-billed toucan in Costa Rica
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