Friday Cephalopod: nice eyes

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Amphitretus pelagicus

There are many more photos of adorable creatures of the deep sea at this site.

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Thanks for the link! Deep sea creatures are awesome. A little more than 3/4's down the page is a black eyed squid. Any idea what it's carrying? Is that it's brood?

I would hardly call the Fanfin Seadevil adorable!

In the picture you posted, I can make out the eyes, but are the other two pink shapes it's brain and beak?

The other photos on the site are spectacular. Far better than any human-designed alien species, IMHO.

I think they're ALL cute. My youngest has a thing for deep sea creatures, but she's more into angler fish. She epcecially likes viper fish. Me, I like the inverts. I think those red plumed tube worms are the CUTEST!

I like the dumbo octopus; do we know anything else about this nifty creature?

By Faithful Reader (not verified) on 27 Apr 2007 #permalink

For some reason it looks vaguely like Darth Vader. Or maybe Chad Vader.

Very cool! Thanks for the photo link, I'm really enjoying looking at these when I need a break from paper-writing.

Also, I thought you might enjoy this post from the CRAFT blog yesterday: Octopus love!

Thanks for the link. My daughter got a kick out of finding out that 'snails' and 'worms' live underwater. I'm kind of partial towards that reddish creature above the Munnopis. Has it been identified/named?

Though they're relatively common in my area , my heart still flutters when I find an "Othoceras" with an exposed siphuncle .

By T R Carroll (not verified) on 27 Apr 2007 #permalink

It's Robbie the Robot (reincarnated as a cephalopod)! :-D