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Friday Cephalopod: nice eyes

Category: CephalopodsOrganisms
Posted on: April 27, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers

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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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#1

Posted by: RickU | April 27, 2007 7:07 AM

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?

#2

Posted by: MarkH | April 27, 2007 7:43 AM

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.

#3

Posted by: dorid | April 27, 2007 8:10 AM

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!

#4

Posted by: Faithful Reader | April 27, 2007 8:10 AM

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

#5

Posted by: Talapus | April 27, 2007 9:10 AM

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

#6

Posted by: Scholar | April 27, 2007 11:30 AM

Ewww, I can see it's brain! Looks a lot like my 5th grade teacher actually, only slightly more evolved.

#7

Posted by: whitney | April 27, 2007 12:47 PM

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!

#8

Posted by: K. Signal Eingang | April 27, 2007 12:52 PM

He is disguising himself as a martini!

(clearly the photo was printed upside-down)

#9

Posted by: KC | April 27, 2007 12:53 PM

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?

#10

Posted by: KeithB | April 27, 2007 1:17 PM

PZ:
Are you on the committee for this years LA Times festival of books?

http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/

#11

Posted by: T R Carroll | April 27, 2007 2:29 PM

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

#12

Posted by: SEF | April 27, 2007 4:40 PM

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

#13

Posted by: raincoaster | April 29, 2007 3:17 AM

That site is diggbait, as you can guess from the name. The actual site that originally uploaded the photos is http://www.thedeepbook.org as you can see from the watermarks on the pix.

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