Video and Slideshow: Reflections on Aquarium's new "Tentacles," as it wraps around imagination.

Otters look at you with the curiosity and temerity of a watery dog.

Sunfish, seemingly, with some confusion. 

These bigfin reef squid, part of the newest piece of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's world-class menagerie, do it with some wisdom—or at least the hungry eye of a predator that, as one veteran staffer says, "would eat you if it could."

Tentacles, opening this Saturday (April 12), is the brand-new special exhibit that brings visitors eye to eye with a range of cephalopods—octopus, cuttlefish and squid—assembled in unprecedented quantity and diversity.

It is worth looking at closely.

Here's a partial peek at the new residents of the wing that previously held The Secret Lives of Seahorses, from the biggest and most suction-cupped octopus in the ocean (Pacific octopus) to the littlest and stubbiest cuttlefish in the reef (stumpy cuttlefish).

Check out the slideshow above right for more images and eight-legged info.

Read the Weekly cover story "Superhero Squid" for another dose.

Then there's this, a look at the "kinetic" sculptor Nemo Gould who put together conservation-inspired messages around the threats cephalopods like the nautilus, octopus and cuttlefish face with found materials:

Another nice Aquarium-produced piece talks to the aquarists who made it happen, and is required viewing for any budding cephalopod sensei:

Finally, a riveting and ribald BuzzFeed-funky look at the wondrous cuttlefish that's approaching 5 million views in just a week, thanks in large part to footage and expertise furnished by the Monterey Bay Aquarium: