Two-spot Octopus

I got a paint-by-numbers book of octopuses once. That was a confusing day.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Scaly Tube Snail

I hadn’t heard of these guys before, so I looked them up.

Apparently you can’t really find them in subway systems.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Kellet's Whelk

I posted this on Facebook a while ago, but I’m re-posting here so everyone can see it.

This is one of the coolest exhibits I’ve seen in quite a while. What you’re seeing is a lucite box with whelks on the top and a piece of fish screwed to the bottom. The whelks are adapted to live on the rocky ocean floor, and send their long flexible mouth things down in between the rocks to feast on whatever things they can scavenge. In this exhibit, you get to see a behavior that is extremely interesting and that, gives you a very different understanding seeing it than reading about it.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.