Friday Cephalopod: A jewel
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: August 10, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers
Histioteuthis heteropsis
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Histioteuthis heteropsis
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Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | August 10, 2007 7:59 AM
This one is so pretty that I, for one, welcome our new Cephalopod Overlords. She makes me want surgically implanted tentacles so I can take a Histioteuthis heretopsis for a wife. (Third time's the charm, right?)
Posted by: kai | August 10, 2007 8:25 AM
It looks like a huge strawberry with tentacles. Now I'll have to check carefully to see if any of the berries in the bowl seem unusually mobile...
Posted by: PalMD | August 10, 2007 9:06 AM
This still being summer, I'd recommend it with sliced fennel root and a nice vinaigrette.
Posted by: llewelly | August 10, 2007 9:38 AM
And now you have learned the terrible truth: the strawberries that vanish from the garden, or even from your own bowl, they were not eaten by your human companions or other household animals - NO! They uncurled their stealthily hidden tentacles, and crawled off to seek the deep blue ocean, where they now plot Revenge ... and World Domination.Posted by: Bruce | August 10, 2007 9:49 AM
PZ, I love these Friday squidlys. Is there anyway to embed a measuring device to give us a sense of scale? (Sometimes I wake up at night scared.)
Posted by: SEF | August 10, 2007 10:41 AM
She(?) is exposing rather a lot of midriff there. Many tweenagers would be sent back to their rooms to cover up properly, rather than be allowed out looking like that.
Posted by: MikeM | August 10, 2007 1:20 PM
I really hate to do this, because it seems like a "Can you top this?" move, but I ran across a Slender Loris picture in this month's National Geographic.
That's one cute primate. Sadly, it's endangered.
The article was for an organization named Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE).
Posted by: Emily O. | August 10, 2007 1:39 PM
This picture is especially stunning.
Posted by: Stanton | August 10, 2007 2:19 PM
We should have gotten a picture of it facing forward, so we can see its huge eye, and its tiny eye.
Posted by: jeffox backtrollin' | August 10, 2007 5:08 PM
Indeed, very nice photo. It makes me hungry, but that's because I haven't had any decent calamari since I lived out east - back in the days when Kramer was QB. :)
Posted by: Melissa G | August 10, 2007 7:10 PM
I, too, would like to cast my vote for an inclusion of scale. Doesn't have to be exact, just an adult size range and a remark as to whether the individual pictured is a juvenile.
When our Cephalopod Overlords take over the Earth, I don't wanna get arrested for fantasizing about coupling with a minor. =D
Posted by: TomDunlap | August 10, 2007 8:33 PM
Sorayma Could have used it as a model.
Posted by: TomDunlap | August 10, 2007 8:38 PM
Or this one.
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | August 11, 2007 10:14 AM
Melissa G - .
When the Overlords take their rightful place you really needn't worry about being arrested. They will dispense with the niceties. They tend to deal with Undesirabes rather quickly. Who needs manacles when you have tentacles and a beak?