WebSplatoon is a third-person shooter video game franchise created by Hisashi Nogami, and developed and owned by Nintendo.Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth inhabited by anthropomorphic marine animals, the series centers around fictional cephalopods known as Inklings and Octolings – based on squids and octopuses respectively – which can …

WebActive camouflage or adaptive camouflage is camouflage that adapts, often rapidly, to the surroundings of an object such as an animal or military vehicle. In theory, active camouflage could provide perfect concealment from visual detection. Active camouflage is used in several groups of animals, including reptiles on land, and cephalopod molluscs …

WebThe radula (UK: / ˈ r æ d j ʊ l ə /, US: / ˈ r æ dʒ ʊ l ə /; plural radulae or radulas) is an anatomical structure used by molluscs for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue. It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters the esophagus.The radula is unique to the molluscs, and is found in …

WebThe kraken (/ ˈ k r ɑː k ən /) is a legendary sea monster of enormous size said to appear off the coasts of Norway.. Kraken, the subject of sailors' superstitions and mythos, was first described in the modern age at the turn of the 18th century, in a travelogue by Francesco Negri in 1700. This description was followed in 1734 by an account from Dano-Norwegian …

WebDiagnostic characters. Ammonites (subclass Ammonoidea) can be distinguished by their septa, the dividing walls that separate the chambers in the phragmocone, by the nature of their sutures where the septa join the outer shell wall, and in general by their siphuncles.. Septa. Ammonoid septa characteristically have bulges and indentations and are to …

WebIn biology, an organism (from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon) 'instrument, implement, tool', and -ισμός (-ismós)) is any organic, living system that functions as an individual entity. All organisms are composed of cells (cell theory).Organisms are classified by taxonomy into groups such as multicellular animals, plants, and fungi; or unicellular microorganisms …

WebIf they are provoked, they quickly change color, becoming bright yellow with each of the 50–60 rings flashing bright iridescent blue within a third of a second as an aposematic warning display. In the greater blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata), the rings contain multi-layer light reflectors called iridophores.These are arranged to reflect …

WebNautiloids are often found as fossils in early Palaeozoic rocks (less so in more recent strata).. The rocks of the Ordovician period in the Baltic coast and parts of the United States contain a variety of nautiloid fossils, and specimens such as Discitoceras and Rayonnoceras may be found in the limestones of the Carboniferous period in Ireland.The …

WebAn octopus (PL: octopuses,octopi, or octopodes, see below for variants) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (/ ɒ k ˈ t ɒ p ə d ə /, ok-TOP-ə-də).The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.Like other cephalopods, an octopus is bilaterally symmetric with …

WebDescription. Enteroctopus is a genus of generally temperate octopuses.Members of this genus are characterized by their large size and are often known as giant octopuses. Enteroctopus species have distinct longitudinal wrinkles or folds dorsally and laterally on their bodies. Their heads are distinctly narrower than the mantle width.