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Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: December 28, 2007 3:53 PM, by PZ Myers
It's still Friday, isn't it? Some of you have noticed there was some screw-up in post scheduling, which has been fixed now…and here at last is the Friday Cephalopod.
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Comments
I got this book for Cephalopodmas. Thanks for introducing it to us, PZ.
Posted by: Meg | December 28, 2007 4:14 PM
Thank you for your good work.
Posted by: Renegade Eye | December 28, 2007 4:28 PM
Looks like one o' them double-decker squiddies.
Posted by: Blondin | December 28, 2007 4:46 PM
Sepia fidelis?
Posted by: pablo | December 28, 2007 5:26 PM
What? Huh? Friday?
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | December 28, 2007 6:16 PM
One below, and one above,
There's magic there to see--
Once just friendship, now it's love;
Six hearts that beat as three.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | December 28, 2007 6:46 PM
I thought this was a family-oriented site!
Posted by: David | December 28, 2007 8:16 PM
Cuddlefish!
Posted by: Adam | December 29, 2007 3:39 PM
It would appear that, in the world of cuttlefish, size really doesn't matter.
Posted by: Bride of Shrek | December 30, 2007 8:10 PM