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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Virgin Islands National Park established
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Happy Mothers Day!
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European Day of Parks
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European fallow deer in England
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Ides of March
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Summer winds down in the Southern Hemisphere
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An old celebration for a new season
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Honoring some real heroes of World War II
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Irohazaka road
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Chinese New Year
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World Population Day
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Patriot Day
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Porto Timoni beach, Greece
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Cross this bridge if you dare
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Paleontology meets art
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Manatee Appreciation Day
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Computer science on the page
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In the Most Serene Republic
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Mountain hare hopping into Lunar New Year
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2022 FIFA World Cup
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World Maritime Day
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Into the woods
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Water colors
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Little Pigeon River, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
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World Meteorological Day
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Arches National Park, Utah
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Bohemian waxwings in Canada
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A dying breed of tree thrives in an American park
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Earth Day
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The mountain of 30,000 sakura
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