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Friday Cephalopod: Smokin'

Category: Organisms
Posted on: June 2, 2006 5:00 AM, by PZ Myers

Octopus vulgaris

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide ^{(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll)}, by Mark Norman.

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Posted by: Bronze Dog | June 2, 2006 6:27 AM

Look out! He's going down! Mayday, mayday!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Posted by: minimalist | June 2, 2006 7:20 AM

Aw no, everybody out of the pool!

Good job, Billy. You couldn't have waited?

Posted by: NelC | June 2, 2006 9:50 AM

Vulgaris, indeed, minimalist.

Posted by: sir_russ | June 2, 2006 9:56 AM

Thanks for the particularly pleasing pic post PZ.

That is one gorgeous shot.

Posted by: sockatume | June 2, 2006 10:59 AM

Exactly what I thought, Bronze Dog. Somebody needs to photoshop some Spitfires in there.

Posted by: thwaite | June 2, 2006 11:31 AM

Spitfires? Those are so 20th century.

It's clearly the Reaver's spaceship from Whedon's "Firefly" SF series...

Posted by: David Harmon | June 2, 2006 11:40 AM

Come on guys -- all this fuss over a perfectly natural bodily function? Is it just because it involves an orifice we primates don't have? (AFAIK) :-) :-) :-)

So this guy looks like he's facing away from us, inking at something above and behind the frame... Are those bumps on top the back of his eyes, or something else?

Posted by: Tlazolteotl | June 2, 2006 2:55 PM

It's coming right for us!

Posted by: Ginger Yellow | June 3, 2006 12:00 PM

Reavers? This close to the core worlds? More likely scavengers.

#10

Posted by: Ken_Cope | June 3, 2006 12:51 PM

I'm down! Thank you, Dear Friends, I'm down, I'm grounded, safe and sound, trailing clouds of glory, I'm down. And I'm marching! Yes, Dear Friends, I'm marching to dinner! Cause Godamighty, I'm hungry! Yes! I'm hungry! Safe and sound and hungry!

#11

Posted by: romunov | June 3, 2006 1:00 PM

Ron posted some pics on Rossia pacifica I thought you might find interesting.