Sentences with word «octopod»

If you're inspired by the idea of octopod bases beneath the oceans of a Jovian moon, then the possible bridge to such a future is NASA's outbound Europa mission — and the advancements wrought by the next generation of cosmic dreamers.
Antarctic octopod Pareledone charcoti; image courtesy of Armin Rose Octopuses» oddities run deep — right down to their blue - hued blood.
«Dumbo octopus & qquot; Grimpoteuthis bathynectes swims in the Northeast Pacific Ocean; image courtesy of University of Washington / YouTube Down in the dark depths of the deep ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to fly).
This dumbo octopus, photographed in 2014 in the Gulf of Mexico, displayed a body posture that has never before been observed in cirrate octopods.
But the tiny octopods may have to perform unusual optical tricks to process their blurry vision.
Those stories — the basis for octopod hijinks in the 2016 Disney - Pixar film Finding Dory — are not especially indicative of high intelligence.
Last January paleobiologist Dirk Fuchs of the Free University of Berlin and his colleagues released their analysis of these fossils — the most ancient octopods known.
«Its appearance indicates that modern octopods developed much earlier than previously thought,» he says.
The study, titled «Clusters of deep - sea egg - brooding octopods associated with warm fluid discharge: An ill - fated fragment of a larger, discrete population?»
Frog fish and flamboyant cuttlefish could be found in the sand, while huge octopods, numerous turtles and sting rays, and sometimes even sharks preferred the coral islands and its passing channel.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, the researchers behind the new technology, explained how octopod escape predators:
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