For World Smile Day, we bring you one animal that can’t really smile, at least not in a way that humans recognize. The common octopus, seen in this photo, has a mouth with a beak-like exterior which it uses to crack the shells of the crabs and shellfish it eats. That opening you can see in this photo, below the octopus’ eye, is an aperture, part of its breathing mechanism. Still, if you let your imagination run with it, the octopus does look like he just heard a really good joke. And really, isn’t a ‘grinning’ octopus enough to make you feel good on World Smile Day?
Is that a smile?
Today in History
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Its Halfway Day!
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Where do those colors come from?
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Just a couple of yellow-billed hornbills
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Happy Fathers Day!
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Brown-throated three-toed sloth in cecropia tree, Costa Rica
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Birch trees, Drammen, Norway
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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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A Portuguese fort takes a star turn
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Misool, Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia
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Summer Olympics begin in Paris
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Ludwig’s palace
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Everglades National Park, Florida
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Satellite image of sand and seaweed in the Bahamas
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Happy birthday to Crater Lake National Park
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Ski touring in Austria
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Kinder Scout, Peak District National Park, England
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Winter at Valley Forge
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International Beaver Day
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Balloons and camels are two ways to catch a ride here
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League of Nations, 100 years later
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Peggys Point Lighthouse, Atlantic Coast, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Happy Pride Month!
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Sandhill cranes, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
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Badlands National Park in South Dakota
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Bobbing for crab apples
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Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia
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What a twist
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Happy Independence Day!
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The village of Castelluccio above the Piano Grande, Umbria, Italy
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Happy International Astronomy Day!
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