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Friday Cephalopod: I'm a sucker for the babes

Category: CephalopodsOrganisms
Posted on: December 8, 2006 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers

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Clutch of Argonauta nodosa eggs and hatchlings

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

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#1

Posted by: MissPrism | December 8, 2006 6:43 AM

They're soooo cute!

#2

Posted by: DrDork | December 8, 2006 6:54 AM

Reminds me of the last "Hospital Ball".

#3

Posted by: Drhoz! | December 8, 2006 7:11 AM


*wibbles at the cute*

they're almost as cute as parasitic bunny botflies!

(well, it's close - the cephalopodlets have the big cute eyes, the bunnybots have strokable silvery fur)

#4

Posted by: coracle | December 8, 2006 9:08 AM

over at SciencePunk the plural of octopus has been queried. Can anyone confirm the correct term.

#5

Posted by: Roxy | December 8, 2006 9:59 AM

That is one of the cutest things I ever did see (well...aside from newly hatched chameleons)!

#6

Posted by: John McKay | December 8, 2006 12:32 PM

I realize all babies are supposed to have blue eyes, but just what is that incredibly pigmented spot? Is it an eye? I'm having trouble making heads or tentacles out of the pretty colors.

#7

Posted by: YuppiTuna | December 8, 2006 2:59 PM

I went to the Minnesota Zoo yesterday, and it turns out they've got a baby two-spotted octopus there... *gets glassy eyed*

#8

Posted by: The Ridger | December 8, 2006 3:08 PM

The plural of octopus: take your pick:

Octopuses - plain old English, as is perfectly appropriate for a borrowed word (compare troikas (not troiki) or raccoons (not whatever the Algonquian would be))
Octopodes - correct plural for the Greek original
Octopi - incorrect plural, would be correct were octopus a Latin word (which it's not), but then even Romans got it wrong sometimes

#9

Posted by: SEF | December 8, 2006 3:43 PM

what is that incredibly pigmented spot?
Perhaps it's baby's first ink in its ink sac
#10

Posted by: Mike Crichton | December 8, 2006 4:55 PM

They'll be even cuter when they start cannibalizing eachother!

#11

Posted by: coracle | December 11, 2006 4:38 AM

Ah, thanks Ridger.

#12

Posted by: Steven | December 11, 2006 5:42 PM

Cool photo. Is the one at the bottom right winning the race?

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