Friday Cephalopod: brooding mother of 100,000
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: December 1, 2006 10:41 AM, by PZ Myers

Enteroctopus dofleini
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: December 1, 2006 10:41 AM, by PZ Myers

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Comments
Posted by: thedarkbackward | December 1, 2006 11:14 AM
It's The Black Goat of the Deeps with Ten Thousand Young!
Posted by: plucky punk | December 1, 2006 11:23 AM
Someone forgot to close their italics tag...
Posted by: Adam Cuerden | December 1, 2006 11:30 AM
But is it... The Squid Demon DIABETES?
Posted by: Kristjan Wager | December 1, 2006 12:17 PM
Close the italics!
Posted by: Stanton | December 1, 2006 12:22 PM
Is that the Mediterrenean (spl?) octopus?
Posted by: mfaerber | December 1, 2006 12:33 PM
Here's a treat for yah PZ: "Cuttlefish Jerky Postcard" http://japundit.com/archives/2006/12/01/4328/
Posted by: Magnum | December 1, 2006 2:11 PM
Someone forgot to close an "i" tag.
Posted by: CCP | December 1, 2006 2:14 PM
someone forgot to read the previous comments suggesting that someone did not close an i tag, but should.
Posted by: pough | December 1, 2006 2:48 PM
...and in case you're having troubles finding the rogue italic, it starts "Enteroctopus dofleini"
Posted by: SEF | December 1, 2006 5:05 PM
No-one's getting near those babies!
Posted by: raincoaster | December 2, 2006 12:33 AM
That is the last thing Angelina Jolie sees...so much for extra-creative adoptions!