The Most Incredible Octopus You’ve Never Heard of: The Blanket Octopus
All octopuses start out as teeny, tiny plankton, and most grow up to settle down on the seafloor. The blanket octopus, however, never settles down, and spends its life wandering the open ocean. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/139/3556/764 http://tolweb.org/Tremoctopus http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=3124 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00288330.2002.9517126 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1977/00000027/00000003/art00001 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00288330.2002.9517126 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00227-002-0959-6.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/1443462?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/b/blanket-octopus/ https://www.wired.com/2015/03/absurd-creature-week-blanket-octopus/ https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2019/07/the-blanket-octopus-looks-like-a-rainbow-ghost-alien/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2003/02/-walnut-size-male-octopus-seen-alive-for-first-time/ https://www.deepseanews.com/2015/05/six-reasons-the-blanket-octopus-is-my-new-favorite-cephalopod/ Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pelagic_octopus_Tremoctopus.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portuguese_Man-O-War_(Physalia_physalis).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hectocotylized_arm_of_an_octopod.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tremoctopus_violaceus5.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tremoctopus_violaceus_Merculiano.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tremoctopus_violaceus.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tremoctopus_violaceus3.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tremoctopus_violaceus2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fish3566_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tremoctopus_gracilis_upper_beak_(side_view).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calcium_carbonate_chunks.JPG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUC2vjIg_Ic https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mollusques_m%C3%A9diteran%C3%A9ens_(!)_(6263521147).jpg https://tinyurl.com/v89ecos https://tinyurl.com/wkv2wpg https://tinyurl.com/ujj826a https://tinyurl.com/r9c4bvw https://tinyurl.com/qrdov32 http://tolweb.org/onlinecontributors/app;jsessionid=2660E2CC90A588CB818AEA8B335D6632?page=ViewImageData&service=external&sp=8374
