Celebrating Cephalopods

In celebration of Cephalopod week 2016, we’ve put together a compilation of some of our favorite observations of these wonderful “head-footed” animals from the deep.

Dumbo octopus (Grimpoteuthis)
Pacific bigeye octopus (Octopus californicus)
Japetella octopus (Japetella)
Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas)
Black-eyed squid carrying an eggsac (Gonatus)
North Pacific giant octopus (Enteroctopus dolfeini)
Cirrate octopus (Cirrata)
Pacific red octopus (Octopus rubescens)

Video producer: Linda Kuhnz
Production support: Lonny Lundsten, Kyra Schlining
Music: Fallout by Konstantinos Panagiotidis

For more information see: http://www.mbari.org/mbari-celebrates...