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OctoNation - World’s Largest Octopus Fan Club!
@octonation.bsky.social
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🐙 Inspiring wonder of the ocean by educating the world about octopuses! 🎉 Of course there is merch! OctoMerch.com (funds OctoNation.com)
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Who wants a copy? SecretsOfTheOctopus.com
Sending out autographed copies of secrets of the octopus with a blue ringed (or red) octopus plush and stickers! (my helper peeking out!) hehe
June 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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🚨 New Research: Male Blue-lined octopuses inject neurotoxin into female's heart so she won't eat him while mating.
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Blue-Lined Octopus Mating: Venomous Sex, Paralysis, and Avoiding Cannibalism
Discover how blue-lined octopuses use venom during mating to survive sexual cannibalism. Nature’s riskiest love story, explained!
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May 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Hold my crab! 🐙🦀🐙
Comic by: @dannastaaf.bsky.social
Learn here: octonation.com/octopus-expe...
April 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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That octopus riding a shark clip?
Turns out the octopus was doing something way smarter than anyone gave them credit for. 🐙🧠👉 octonation.com/octopus-expe...
Octopus Expert Reacts to Viral Octopus Riding a Shark (and More)
Why was an octopus riding a shark? Octopus Expert Warren Carlyle explains the viral video and the cling-or-be-consumed strategy behind it.
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April 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Had a great time in Austin this past weekend. Thanks to all the octopuses and for @octonation.bsky.social for the warm welcome.
Photo: SS Julian holding a copy of Octopolis next to an iron sculpture of an octopus Photo: SS Julian and Octonation founder Warren Carlyle in front of an iron sculpture of an octopus Photo: SS Julian holding a copy of Octopolis and a plus octopus next to a building with a large metal sculpture of an octopus on the roof
January 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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AdoptAnOctopus.com 🐙💙💙💙
January 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Did you know octopuses come equipped with their own built-in “chainsaw”? YUP! Mother Nature really outdid herself on this one! Read latest blog here: octonation.com/octopus-teet...
January 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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What fascinates you most about this species? The fact that her feeding tentacles fall off when she broods her eggs is wild! Learn more here:
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January 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Yoink!
January 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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First Octo-Blog post of the year, and it's wonderfully weird! What fact fascinated you the most?
Octopus Teeth: The Tiny Chainsaw Inside an Octopus’ Mouth
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Octopus Teeth: The Tiny Chainsaw Inside an Octopus’ Mouth
Octopus teeth are tiny chainsaws. YUP!—Mother Nature really outdid herself on this one! These eight-armed wonders and their relatives have one ribbon-like tongue loaded with microscopic teeth called a...
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January 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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🐙🎉 Best of 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ Countdown!
Caption this video! 

🎥: @MasterReefGuides | @lost.in.a.circle

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December 31, 2024 at 7:52 AM
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👀 Lookin’ for a last minute gift? Give the gift of octopuses! 🐙💙💙💙
OctoNation Gift Card
Dear fellow octopus geek, your last-minute shopper here. We've been working round the clock on stocking up our shelves for you and we're psyched to say, We Got This! So we hope this card will do one t...
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December 17, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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🐙 We often get asked if we’re trying to ‘save the octopus.’ Our reply? The octopus doesn’t need saving—we do. Octopuses have stood the test of time. Human civilizations? Well… 😅
a large octopus is sitting on a rock in the ocean
ALT: a large octopus is sitting on a rock in the ocean
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December 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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Coconut Octopus?: Present 👋x8
coralmorphologic.bsky.social Coral Morphologic @coralmorphologic.bsky.social · Dec 16
👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋
December 16, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Okay what i think @bsky.app needs is octopus species glamour shots, yearbook style-- yes?

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December 16, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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@octonation.bsky.social has been sharing Octopolis with the nation!
octonation.bsky.social OctoNation - World’s Largest Octopus Fan Club! @octonation.bsky.social · Dec 16
@octopolis.bsky.social is so pumped that his comic keeps selling out on OctoNation!!! Clearly, The world is ready for a cephalopod takeover 🤣
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December 16, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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@octopolis.bsky.social is so pumped that his comic keeps selling out on OctoNation!!! Clearly, The world is ready for a cephalopod takeover 🤣
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December 16, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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December 16, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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December 16, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Imagine life 30 football fields deep in total darkness! At 2,650+ meters, Vulcanoctopus thrive near hydrothermal vents, where water superheats above 100°C under crushing pressure. 🥵 They hide in tubeworm colonies or cracks, calling the rocky, alien-like seabed home sweet home! 🐙✨

🎥: @SchmidtOcean
December 16, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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"horrifying but educational drawings" -- I spit out my coffee, thanks @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social (& @dannastaaf.bsky.social!)
cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · Dec 15
That's actually the opening to the mantle cavity. Their mantle isn't their head but their torso.

Cephalopods don't have the head-torso-limb body plan like we do. Instead, they have the torso-head-limb body plan.

See these horrifying but educational drawings by @dannastaaf.bsky.social
How to make a cephalopod. (With cartoony drawings) 1. Remove limbs. (Smiling human with dotted lines at shoulders and hips) 2. Attach to lips. (Human with flat mouth expression, just head and torso. Arms and legs are floating above with arrows pointing from them to lips) 3. See? It works. (Smiling human cephalopod with arms and legs around mouth. Drawing of an octopus shows anatomical similarity.) How to make a cephalopod, part II. Internal anatomy. (Cartoony drawings with instructions) 1. Remove urogenital and digestive exit holes. (A human cephalopod with simplified systems in its body drawn in different colors. X's are next to the anus, urethral and genital openings) 2. Redirect exit tubes to nose. (The systems are partially rearranged, with arrows pointing to the nostril) 3. Breathe out to excrete, reproduce, and swim! (The creature looks happy and is giving a double thumbs up with the limbs attached to its lips. Internal systems are fully rearranged and an arrow points outward from the nostril)
December 15, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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🐙 Octopus? WHUT Octopus!? 👀
🧑‍🎨: Gabe Pyle gabepyle.com
December 15, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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🤩🤩🤩
December 12, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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🐙 [comic] How the octopus lost its shell 🐚
Writing: @dannastaaf.bsky.social
Art: @octopolis.bsky.social

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[Comic] How the Octopus Lost its Shell
Today, we are showcasing our first-ever octopus comic book: "How The Octopus Lost Its Shell" from Danna Staaf and Sam Julian!
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December 12, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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🚫 If you look now for photos of the smoothskin octopus, you won’t find much! 🐙🔍

this species is the squishy ground hog of the octopus world creating intricate tunnels deep beneath the sea floor! 🕳️🐙💨

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Rarely Spotted Octopus Creates Underground Tunnels!
Squishy gopher? Nope, it's a Smoothskin Octopus, the elusive deep-sea marvel now found close to shore! Known for its incredibly smooth skin, this nocturnal burrower creates intricate underground shelt...
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December 11, 2024 at 7:53 PM