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Friday Cephalopod: A face to kiss

Category: CephalopodsOrganisms
Posted on: June 1, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers

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Needle cuttlefish, Sepia aculeata, front view at night, Dumaguete, Negros Island, Philippines

(via ArteSub, where you can find a whole collection of underwater photography)

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#1

Posted by: Martin Christensen | June 1, 2007 7:24 AM

PZ, I had no idea you know my mother-in-law!

Martin

#2

Posted by: John P | June 1, 2007 11:25 AM

Definitely not a cuddlefish.

#3

Posted by: llewelly | June 1, 2007 2:24 PM

John P is just rude. It's as furry as a fungus colony, it has beautiful greenish-gray-brown flesh with pretty pink stripes, a cute combination inspired by color-blindness, and large friendly eyes with gaping pupils like black mine shafts.

#4

Posted by: emkay | June 1, 2007 4:34 PM

OK, I give up, which end is the face? Or perhaps as the old saw goes, with a face like that I'd shave my tentacles and swim backwards.

Actually, 'tis a beautiful critter.

#5

Posted by: Monado | June 1, 2007 10:09 PM

It reminds me of a Muppet!

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