For World Smile Day, we bring you one animal that can’t really smile, at least not in a way that humans recognize. The common octopus, seen in this photo, has a mouth with a beak-like exterior which it uses to crack the shells of the crabs and shellfish it eats. That opening you can see in this photo, below the octopus’ eye, is an aperture, part of its breathing mechanism. Still, if you let your imagination run with it, the octopus does look like he just heard a really good joke. And really, isn’t a ‘grinning’ octopus enough to make you feel good on World Smile Day?
Is that a smile?
Today in History
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Ravens
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A duckling swimming in a water meadow, Suffolk, England
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Muskoxen in Dovre-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Norway
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Here comes summer
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National Moon Day
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Four Sisters, thousands of trees
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Western Monarch Day
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Happy Fathers Day!
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Sand dunes in the Sahara, Algeria
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World Rainforest Day
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Après-ski in the Dolomites
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International Day for Monuments and Sites
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Przewalskis horses, Hustai National Park, Mongolia
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Megalong Valley, Blue Mountains National Park, Australia
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Eastern grey kangaroos in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park
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World Water Day
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Pasadena Chalk Festival supports local arts education
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English National Ballet performing The Nutcracker
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Mandarin duck, Richmond Park, London, England
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National Park Week begins
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In the Garden of Europe
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Giving Tuesday
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Porto Cathedral, Portugal
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC
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Sands of time
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Broken Beach in Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia
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Spotted eagle rays in the Galápagos Islands
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
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Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrivé!
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