#exhibit update

Meet the newest critter in our Tentacles special exhibition: The broadclub cuttlefish! This second-largest member of the cuttlefish family gets its name from it's two club-like tentacles, which it uses to strike and grab prey.

The female giant Pacific octopus has laid eggs! Look for a cluster attached to rocks in the top left corner of the right-hand exhibit. A female lays tens of thousands of eggs, in strands of about 250. 

It’s unlikely that these particular eggs are fertile or will produce baby octopuses, however. The urge to lay eggs comes just once, and usually marks the end of the octopus’s life. It’s all part of the natural cycle for these magical and intelligent animals.

Learn more about the giant Pacific octopus. 

It takes two hands and a firm grip to hang onto the penguin chick that hatched in late August. After one week, it weighed 8.5 ounces; it now weighs more than eight times that much! We're working behind the scenes with the little guy, getting it comfortable around people as preparation for eventual re-introduction to the Splash Zone exhibit.

These (eight) arms are for hugging!  We'd love to know: how would you handle an octopus embrace?

Learn more about the giant Pacific Octopus.

Hey, where'd he go? Can you find the octopus in the second shot? We're working behind the scenes with the algae octopus (and many other species) in preparation for "Tentacles," our special exhibition opening next spring.