
Needle cuttlefish, Sepia aculeata, front view at night, Dumaguete, Negros Island, Philippines
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Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: June 1, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers

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Posted by: Martin Christensen | June 1, 2007 7:24 AM
PZ, I had no idea you know my mother-in-law!
Martin
Posted by: John P | June 1, 2007 11:25 AM
Definitely not a cuddlefish.
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.
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.
Posted by: Monado | June 1, 2007 10:09 PM
It reminds me of a Muppet!