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Friday Cephalopod: It does look rather evil-overlordish

Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: August 3, 2007 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers

Macrotritopus larva

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide ^{(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll)}, by Mark Norman.

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Posted by: SEF | August 3, 2007 6:28 AM

It's lovely. However, those arm gestures could be a form of semaphore communication, spell-casting or expansive gesticulation to accompany some rhetoric. It does seem pretty intense about it. :-D

Posted by: Graculus | August 3, 2007 6:39 AM

Well, evil-overlordish if "Evil Overlord" includes squeee-inducingly cute.

Posted by: DaveX | August 3, 2007 7:27 AM

Semaphore, my ass. Clearly, this little one is doing the robot.

Posted by: Graculus | August 3, 2007 7:35 AM

Testing, testing, sciblogs is eating my posts in moderation again....

Posted by: Lee Harrison | August 3, 2007 7:49 AM

That is SO Cthulhu - love it.

Gotta say - I love all the friday cephalopods. Keep it up, PZ, and thanks.

Posted by: Andrew Dodds | August 3, 2007 8:48 AM

SEF - If YOU were plankton and realised that your chances of reaching adulthood withoug getting filtered and digested by one of several thousand different species was about 1 in a gazillion, you'd be pretty intense as well..

Posted by: Brigit | August 3, 2007 8:51 AM

This one looks like one I saw at the tattoo parlor the other day that basically screamed "PZ". Imagine the same arm gestures in a rather ferocious-looking octopus with a banner that said "Death from Below". I've even tried looking online for it, but it was an original from that parlor :(

Posted by: Colin M | August 3, 2007 9:08 AM

Sorry everyone, but I just had to caption this one. LOLctopus!

Posted by: jhallum | August 3, 2007 9:11 AM

I note this morning that the new Lio comic Anthology will have a great title:

"Happiness is a Squishy Cephalopod"

http://astore.amazon.com/ucomicscom/detail/0740768492/104-8619763-4915915

I know its first on my Christmas list.

#10

Posted by: Sean | August 3, 2007 9:20 AM

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

#11

Posted by: SEF | August 3, 2007 9:46 AM

"LOLctopus" is rather cthuloidly unpronounceable. It could be a lolopod instead.

#12

Posted by: RamblinDude | August 3, 2007 10:04 AM

All hail His High Holiness of Octopi, Pope Defilippi.

Prepare to get really blessed.

#13

Posted by: Ronald Brak | August 3, 2007 10:12 AM

I want one as a hat.

#14

Posted by: Rey Fox | August 3, 2007 11:25 AM

I, for one, welcome our new widdle cefwopod overlords. Yes I do yes I do!

#15

Posted by: frau im mond | August 3, 2007 11:31 AM

Scientists Engineer 12-Headed Jellyfish. Article explains HOW they did it, but not WHY...

#16

Posted by: Jenbug | August 3, 2007 11:32 AM

Now that perfectly matches the exterior paint of my car! I would love to have that little guy hanging from my rearview, possibly waving his arms to match my direction. He beats my boyfriend's Velocity Jesus, but not by much.

*Sigh* A girl can dream though.

#17

Posted by: SEF | August 3, 2007 12:09 PM

I want one as a hat.

Are you sure about that?

#18

Posted by: K. Engels | August 3, 2007 12:39 PM

Ia! Ia! Macrotritopus larva Fhtagn!

#19

Posted by: Aaron Kinney | August 3, 2007 1:09 PM

Oh no, its SQUIDKING!

#20

Posted by: PalMD | August 3, 2007 1:53 PM

Damn, you'd need a whole lot of those to make a good salad...i would think you could substitute them for jellyfish in a Vietnamese jellyfish salad.

#21

Posted by: Ronald Brak | August 3, 2007 2:18 PM

SEF, Currently I have one team working on creating a giant Macrotritopus larva large enough to wear as a hat and another team working on a way to shink me small enough to wear one as a hat. The second team is of course a ruse. Once they perfect the shrinking technology I shall use it on them and feed the entire team to my new headgear.

#22

Posted by: horrobin | August 3, 2007 2:22 PM

"FEAW ME!!"

#23

Posted by: Tom @Thoughtsic.com | August 3, 2007 2:48 PM

SEF wrote:

I want one as a hat.
Are you sure about that?

It worked out for Harry Potter, didn't it?

#24

Posted by: pansauce | August 3, 2007 3:40 PM

"Who's the little fear demon?"

#25

Posted by: zayzayem | August 3, 2007 10:23 PM

But it's just a wee baby. awwwwww

#26

Posted by: cory | August 4, 2007 10:42 AM

Hmmmm....next-generation human/Dalek hybrid...now with TWO eyes!

Ex-TERMINATE!

#27

Posted by: deeana | August 4, 2007 12:19 PM

That would make an excellent badge or sticker. Does PZ consider getting shirts for his blog or want to have a nifty little logo? Because it's both fearsome and cute, as others have said! :)

#28

Posted by: Justin Moretti | August 5, 2007 6:44 PM

The body sac, or gut sac, or whatever, above the head and tentacles, reminds me disturbingly of Sauron's Eye from the LOTR films.

There's a place for cephalopod macros to rival cat macros, I'm sure. CephLOLopods.

#29

Posted by: Natalie Wagner | April 4, 2008 10:52 AM

http://www.craphound.com/images/hilliersquid.jpg