Friday Cephalopod: Big-eyed spindly critter
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: May 4, 2007 10:00 AM, by PZ Myers
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Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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I've seen these before, Roger Steele took some magnificent photos of them, but, what is the species or genus name?
Posted by: Stanton | May 4, 2007 10:43 AM
It definitely looks like one of H. G. Wells' Martians.
Posted by: Monado | May 4, 2007 10:54 AM
Ooo, shiny.
Posted by: RCP | May 4, 2007 10:55 AM
PZ:
Are you familiar with the game called Cephalopod by game and puzzle designer Mark Steere?
Games magazine featured it in a recent issue and the name immediately made me think of you.
On his site, the board is plain greyscale. But in Games, they printed it in colour, and the board was surrounded by a pair of stylized cephalopods of some kind (I'm not savvy enough to know if they were a particular identifiable species).
Posted by: Wilson Fowlie | May 4, 2007 12:13 PM
That's a beautiful photo...the luminous blue tentacles. Saved it, thanks!
Posted by: Observer | May 4, 2007 12:57 PM
I must say, I never saw the beauty of cephalopods before discovering Pharyngula.
Posted by: forsen | May 4, 2007 6:10 PM
"It was a one-eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater,
one-eyed, one horned flying purple people eater.."
Posted by: JJR | May 6, 2007 10:26 AM