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Friday Cephalopod: Telescope octopus
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: October 13, 2006 7:00 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Stanton | October 13, 2006 8:33 AM
How come they call it "telescope" octopus?
Telescoping eyes?
Posted by: Paguroidea | October 13, 2006 8:36 AM
What an awesome octopus!
Posted by: nat | October 13, 2006 8:57 AM
This guy must have played a part in the "Abyss" movie...
Posted by: Mike | October 13, 2006 7:06 PM
I gotta get me that book one of these days.
Posted by: Mac | October 13, 2006 8:40 PM
Hmmm, I can't see the picture. I tried Firefox, Explorer, and Netscape. Anyone else aving this problem?
Any other links to the picture?
Posted by: Mike | October 13, 2006 9:51 PM
I had no problem and I'm using Firefox.
Posted by: Sarah | October 14, 2006 12:46 AM
This might be something of a dumb question: did they put it under UV to make it glow like that, or is it just an effect of the light it was photographed in?
Posted by: gmac | November 8, 2006 11:40 AM
Amazing. Yet another example of their superiority and inevitable dominance in the evolutionary chain. Bet he can cut it up on the dance floor as well.