Friday Cephalopod: Adorable baby
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: December 15, 2006 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers
(From the Olympus Bioscapes International Digital Imaging Competition)
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Posted by: Marc Buhler | December 15, 2006 6:17 AM
Cute, but you're still 72 votes behind and they have kittens.
(signed) marc
Posted by: Bob O'H | December 15, 2006 7:41 AM
Make that 51, and remember: it was a mutant kitten.
Bob
Posted by: Stanton | December 15, 2006 8:25 AM
What species is it?
Posted by: Ginger Yellow | December 15, 2006 12:38 PM
The last episode of Planet Earth had some great footage of baby cephalopods doing the whole blinking colourspot thing.
Posted by: Pete | December 15, 2006 7:04 PM
looks a lot like the Argonauta from last week..
Posted by: Jonathan King | December 15, 2006 10:17 PM
That's the most beautiful thing I have seen all week. I don't think that poets have words to express beauty such as this, so you must tell me: is the eye pigmentation in the photo(micrograph) restricted to the expression domain of PAX6?
Posted by: mirror | December 16, 2006 3:46 AM
That is cuter than any human baby I have ever seen.