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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Go Fly a Kite Day
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Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy
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Mexican giant cardon cactus
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Aerial view of Venice, Italy
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A valley view at 9,000 feet
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Bathing boxes at Brighton Beach, Australia
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What, no escalator?
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Travel Sunday: Liverpool
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Atlantic puffin, Iceland
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A day of death and rebirth
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A hermitage with a view
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Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany
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Shark Awareness Day
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The United States 250th anniversary
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Sunny day, sweepin the clouds away
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Arch and Milky Way, Alabama Hills, Sierra Nevada, California
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A century since Tut s tomb was discovered
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Annivesary of the Wilderness Act of 1964
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Aurora borealis
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Après-ski in the Dolomites
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The story of a rediscovered redwood
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Juvenile manatees in a freshwater spring, Crystal River, Florida
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Whooper swans, Kotoku Pond, Japan
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A view fit for a queen
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Fog above the forest
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The Crown of the Continent
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Yellowstone for the National Park Services birthday
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Pretty poetic for a pit
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Cosplay strongly encouraged
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Brooklyn Bridge, New York City
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