Cute Smiling Octopus

Posted by Alex in Animal, Pictures on November 11, 2008 at 3:21 am



Photo: M. Rauschert / Census of Marine Life

Here’s the cutest little octopus you’ll see today: the smiling Megaleledone setebos octopus found by the Census of Marine Life Project.

National Geographic has more:

"It’s quite cute," but the squinting eyes are just skin folds (the real eyes are off to the sides), and the smile is "just sort of color patterns," said biologist Jan Strugnell of the University
of Oxford.

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11 comments to "Cute Smiling Octopus"

  1. CelticCatEyes
    November 11th, 2008 at 4:44 am

    Very cute, though I am a bigger fan of the smiling septopus.

  2. CheeseDuck
    November 11th, 2008 at 6:16 am

    I for one welcome our new cute overlords.

  3. Rocky Rook
    November 11th, 2008 at 7:27 am

    Maybe it can give Otto a smile so he doesn’t put out the lights.

  4. A Noun
    November 11th, 2008 at 8:21 am

    How cute. How tasty.

  5. stormie24
    November 11th, 2008 at 10:35 am

    awwwww. so cute.
    but can’t jan strugnell just give us one this time and pretend that it’s smiling. goshhh.

  6. Johnny Cat
    November 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    My God…It’s full of stars.

  7. JeffB
    November 11th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Pikachu!

  8. Ali S.
    November 11th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    It looks like it should be holding a rattle in one tentacle and a teddy in the other. ;)

  9. mallory
    November 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    That doesn’t even look like a real octopus! It looks like a statue or something. It’s really cute though :)

  10. Coco
    November 11th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    Wouldn’t be as cute though if it were enormous like a godzilla sized smiling octopus. Imagine that…

  11. that random guy
    November 16th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    hes not smiling hes just constipated o_0


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