Friday Cephalopod: Great googly-moogly!
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: October 5, 2007 9:00 AM, by PZ Myers
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The Deep is nothing but astonishing stuff. I'm thankful I live in a time when dinosaurs and pterosaurs are more interesting than ever, when we've got the machines to bring back those beautiful pictures of otherworldly deepsea organisms and when we've started to unravel things like the deep similarities in development of organisms. It's a wonderful time to have an interest in science.
Posted by: Mike from Ottawa | October 5, 2007 9:22 AM
Wilford, is that you?
Posted by: another | October 5, 2007 9:52 AM
Actually, it looks unnervingly like one of the Martians from "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". How big is this thing? More importantly, does it have Heat-Rays?
Posted by: ajay | October 5, 2007 10:11 AM
Here fido
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | October 5, 2007 10:22 AM
Is that a crucifix on top?
Posted by: BSD | October 5, 2007 10:44 AM
Looks like a used condom with googly eyes stuck on it.
Posted by: Euan | October 5, 2007 11:45 AM
Damn, BDC beat me to it. Probably stole the margareen, too.
Is that a larval stage? Or an adult??
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | October 5, 2007 11:49 AM
It looks to me like an X-ray picture of Dubaya's head !
Posted by: S. Rivlin | October 5, 2007 11:58 AM
I can't wait till I'm old enough to be the cranky old guy yelling get offa my lawn!
Posted by: John Albers | October 5, 2007 12:51 PM
It reminds me of some Nintendo monster or another. The unholy spawn of a Metroid and an Octorok, maybe.
Hey guys! Apparently I'm a huge geek!
Posted by: K. Signal Eingang | October 5, 2007 1:08 PM
I'd say it looks a bit more like Mother Brain than a Metroid. I can see the Octorok though.
Posted by: Jeff White | October 5, 2007 1:20 PM
Beaten to it, the first thing I thought of was "Metroid".
Posted by: GDwarf | October 5, 2007 5:36 PM
Sven, it's an immature post larval stage. Here it is showing its trick of turning itself into a ball. Google turned up quite a few hits. I learned that it grows up to 200 mm long here:
http://tolweb.org/Teuthowenia_pellucida/19615
Its eye stalks are bioluminescent, as seen glowing in the picture.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck, FCD | October 5, 2007 7:31 PM
...." Come.. BACK here...little.. rahh-bbit...."
Posted by: Paul Komoda | October 6, 2007 1:55 PM
The publisher of The Deep, the University of Chicago Press, has a much more substantial gallery of photos on its website for the book.
Posted by: dean | October 8, 2007 1:42 PM
Been to Liberty Meadows, eh?
-- CV
Posted by: CortxVortx | October 8, 2007 10:09 PM