Photo by Simon Chandra.

Did you have any idea that baby octopi (octopuses? Octopodes? I’ve actually seen a surprising amount of debate about this) were so goshdarn adorable? The top one even has little anime eyelashes!

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National Geographic has a desktop-sized version of this photo, which was taken by Nat Geo reader Simon Chandra, in case you want to see octopups waving at you every time you minimize a window. And who wouldn’t?

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