Meg Octopus Biologist

Meg Octopus Biologist Scientist, Artist, Photographer
Teaching you everything you DON’T know about octopuses & capturing the beauty of our planet

Preparing to see Hayley Williams next month and I may actually get one of these made at this point 🫡
04/18/2026

Preparing to see Hayley Williams next month and I may actually get one of these made at this point 🫡

04/12/2026

New knowledge just dropped! How we got the squid and cuttlefish we have today, because of the cretaceous-Paleocene extinction!

04/11/2026

New knowledge just dropped about the evolution of squid and cuttlefish ‼️🦑‼️

Source: Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches. Sanchez et al 2026

04/05/2026

This video was posted 2 years ago today! What a fun time on the internet. I personally loved this experience, i mean it got me into the New York Times. Who wouldn’t be stoked on that?

All the love to this family. I know they have deleted their accounts now but if they’re still watching my stuff I hope they know how much I appreciate them. The sad news is these babies ended up not surviving which was really not surprising. It is VERY DIFFICULT to raise baby octopuses. ESPECIALLY as complete newbies. They did a fantastic job trying their best and they should feel absolutely no guilt or shame for their efforts.

This event has passed but maybe some people will still be interested in the info I shared, so I’m reposting a trimmed down version 🥰 ( the original video was 3minutes 30 seconds)

April’s sticker of the month features the flapjack octopus, opisthoteuthis! For a while now Ive been wanting to remake m...
04/05/2026

April’s sticker of the month features the flapjack octopus, opisthoteuthis!

For a while now Ive been wanting to remake my flapjack sticker and I finally got around to it! I think this new one is just as cute as the old one. But really it would be quite difficult to make a flapjack NOT cute. It’s just inherently a part of them

Get this sticker by joining my patreon sticker club, 🔗 in bio

04/03/2026

Everyone give it up for the vampire squid!!🦑 the largest cephalopod genome (11 giga bases), one of the larger animal genomes, and the only living representative of the vampyropods! Theyve existed since the mesozoic era (252-66 mya) but almost all them went extinct at the end of the cretaceous (~66 mya), except for vampyroteuthis 🫶 a living legend and an extreme baddie who has provided further evidence about the evolution of octopuses and how they most likely transitioned from an ancestral decapodiformes (squid and cuttlefish) thanks to their chromosomes, which more closely resemble squid and cuttlefish than octopuses!

And yes I will take a moment to dunk on the octopuses are aliens crowd because the evidence against their hypothesis just keeps piling up but i’m supposed to “hear them out” and “respect their views”, meanwhile they are not getting better evidence to back up their claims

04/02/2026

Im gonna say something nobody wants to hear: octopuses short lifespans are part of the reason they are so successful 💪😤

03/29/2026

Crazy to have identified a protein responsible for aggressive behavior in male squid (loligo pealeii specifically) during mass spawning events.

Essentially, female squids come and lay their eggs (unfertilized), male squids come up and touch them, become aggressive due to the presence of this protein on the outer coating of the eggs, and start fighting each other. This allows the female squids to choose which male squid to fertilize their eggs with based on which male is the perceived as the better competitor.

CRAZY

03/24/2026

Did you know that octopus, squid, and cuttlefish edit their RNA more than any other organism we know of? Take a minute to learn about an emerging area of research that I am a part of!

03/22/2026

What is the correct plural of octopus? Explained by an octopus biologist

I have run my explanation thru many linguists over my career and still think octopodes being correct is dumb af. But that’s just my two cents. You can use whatever plural you want, truly it does not matter.

Unless you’re a rude person who loves to undermine people’s expertise and try to correct them instead of taking two seconds to google something. Then octopuses is the only correct plural and i hope you have a bad day.

03/19/2026

Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day to this remarkable discovery! Thank you to Fernando himself ( ) for sending this in my discord 🫶 so honored to know this incredible taxonomist and colleague ! Congratulations once again!

Source: WoRMS (World Registry of Marine Species)

03/18/2026

Reef squid are way too cool to not get as much attention as they deserve

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