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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Antarctica Day
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Mid-Autumn Festival
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From garden to table?
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Cheetah mother and cub
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National Take a Hike Day
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Porto Timoni beach, Greece
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National Park Week: Yosemite National Park, California
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Tour de France
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Sea lion in a kelp forest, Baja California, Mexico
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Winter in the Wild West
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International Day for Biological Diversity
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Make way for robots
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World Sea Turtle Day
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