The Only Octopus With a Shell

Check out Manta Sleep here https://tinyurl.com/54xsxtt4 and make sure to use bizarrebeasts for 10% off your order! And then, take a nap! The octopus is a pretty odd animal under even the most ordinary circumstances – or ordinary by octopus standards, at least. So when folks start calling out one type of octopus as the strangest, there’s probably something special about it. And the argonaut, also known as the paper nautilus, lives up to the hype. Do you need your own Argonaut? https://complexly.store/products/bb-february-25-argonaut Subscribe to the pin club here: https://complexly.store/products/bizarre-beasts-pin-subscription This month's pin is designed by Riley Samels. You can find out more about them and their work here: https://www.instagram.com/rileyalwayssmiley/ You can cancel any time by emailing [email protected] Correction: 1:21 Argonauts are not the only pelagic octopuses! There are others, including Japetella diaphana and the blanket octopus. Follow us on socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bizarrebeasts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarrebeastsshow/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizarreBeastsShow/ #BizarreBeasts #octopus ----- Sources: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/inside-the-brain-of-an-octopus https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/how-octopuses-and-squids-change-color https://blog.nature.org/2021/05/24/meet-the-argonaut-the-worlds-weirdest-octopus/ http://tolweb.org/Argonauta https://daily.jstor.org/paper-nautilus-octopus-of-the-open-sea/ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-theyve-cracked-the-mystery-of-the-argonaut-octopus-and-its-shell https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2016.2818 https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/14/11/evac140/6730389 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635632/ https://archive.org/details/hallofshells00hard/page/84/mode/2up https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/10/9/839 https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.9.ix.html https://www.jstor.org/stable/4095022 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0001437018010101 https://museumsvictoria.com.au/media/7994/063-104_mmv77_finn_4_web.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201100001 https://octonation.com/how-an-argonaut-shell-is-spun-out-of-their-arms/ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Argonauta_nodosa/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/27862405 https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cub.2009.10.052 https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-seamstress-and-the-secrets-of-the-argonaut-shell/ https://octonation.com/how-male-argonauts-taught-scientists-about-octopus-sex/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/argonaut https://octonation.com/should-you-pick-up-an-octopus-hitchhiker/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CiAuIPlhVrQ/ https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Mermaids_and_Monsters?id=-LzZDgAAQBAJ&hl=en_CA&pli=1 https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/37578/7/2071.pdf https://www.instagram.com/p/C5QJY12uXHi/ https://lindaiphotography.com/ngg_tag/pelagic-octopus/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/cephalopod-camouflage-cells-and-organs-of-the-144048968/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9635632/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9635652/ https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/67/7/1494/661868?login=false ------ Thumbnail image by Frank Krasovec https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/220706860 Images: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6BNAE0lflK4P6xxFYBjzvso2Kz2577GeCtu-OdvMps/edit?usp=sharing