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« A pox on them all | Main | Friday Cephalopod? »
Friday Cephalopod: Three eerie green embryos
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: October 31, 2008 6:25 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: reverted | October 31, 2008 6:43 AM
For some reason, these things remind me vaguely of the Glukkons from the Oddworld videogame series. (I know... weird. But, still.)
Posted by: Blackrend | October 31, 2008 6:46 AM
So creepy lookin...
Posted by: alex | October 31, 2008 7:13 AM
they look a bit like three very small mormons who've just turned up on the doorstep.
Posted by: Fernando Magyar | October 31, 2008 7:13 AM
Bizzaro, though it may partly be due to the unnatural lighting.
Posted by: s1do | October 31, 2008 7:14 AM
No les acabo de ver la forma de los Loligo pealey adultos, claro que es lo que tienen los embriones, que son amorfos.
Posted by: Prune | October 31, 2008 7:20 AM
I reckon it'd be pretty easy to make cookies or gingerbread to a reasonable approximation of these embryos. Any baking types care to attempt?
Posted by: amon | October 31, 2008 7:20 AM
curly, larry & embrymo ?
Posted by: Didac | October 31, 2008 7:22 AM
Fernando,
No lightning in this picture, at all. It is not a photograph but an electrograph, through a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Green colour is only for aesthetic purposes.
Posted by: Masks of Eris | October 31, 2008 7:34 AM
Pareidolia strikes again! The one in the middle is even wearing a fedora!
Posted by: John Morales | October 31, 2008 7:49 AM
s1do, bueno, sí, pero es solamente una bonita imagen :)
PZ no dice nada mas.
Posted by: djlactin | October 31, 2008 8:13 AM
"eerie green embryos". Now there's a great name for an alt/indie band!
Posted by: murgadroid | October 31, 2008 8:35 AM
See no evil squid, hear no evil squid, speak no evil squid.
:-)
Posted by: davem | October 31, 2008 8:42 AM
If the one on the middle is wearing a Fedora, why are the other two wearing berets? I need to know.
Posted by: E.V. | October 31, 2008 8:59 AM
Christmas Carolers!
or
Radioactive Hipster Snowmen
Posted by: Masks of Eris | October 31, 2008 9:03 AM
#13: Maybe it's the infamous fedora-wearing gangster boss Al Cephalo and his two bereted ex-Army bodyguards? ("I could kill you with seven tentacles tied behind my back!")
Posted by: Lynnai | October 31, 2008 9:06 AM
they appear to be grinning at me.
I think I need more coffee.
Posted by: Prof MTH | October 31, 2008 9:25 AM
They remind me of Oogy Boogy Man.
Posted by: Justin H. | October 31, 2008 9:25 AM
They look like little witches. Norns of the Nautilus.
Posted by: Mena | October 31, 2008 9:33 AM
I really thought that the piglet squid at Cute Overload was going to show up here but this is cool too!
Posted by: Mena | October 31, 2008 9:38 AM
Oops, premature posting. Prune @6:
How about an embryo bento lunch? That may be a bit easier due to having a lot of different materials available.
Posted by: Duck Dodgers in the 24-1/2 Century | October 31, 2008 10:27 AM
*with a pronounced lisp*
Lisssten folks - the little green Martian cephalopods are coming to get YOU!
Posted by: Newfie | October 31, 2008 11:01 AM
Nice. Spinal Tap's last drummer.
Posted by: Dusty | October 31, 2008 12:35 PM
They look like Wombles to me!
Posted by: E.V. | October 31, 2008 1:09 PM
Turn the image upside down and you've got three day-glo mustachioed french poodle heads with funky electronic collars.
Posted by: Mad Hussein LOLScientist, FCD | October 31, 2008 1:23 PM
Nice hat on the guy in the middle. :-)
Posted by: Jack Rawlinson` | October 31, 2008 4:39 PM
Love the pork pie hat on the middle one. Must be into ska.
Posted by: Sili | October 31, 2008 7:42 PM
Looks more like a strawhat to me. Most likely a bent up Panama. Like Osgood Fielding III.
Posted by: Paguroidea | October 31, 2008 9:11 PM
There is a nice video of a pair of long-finned squid (Loligo pealei) swimming at http://www.mbl.edu/publications/pub_archive/Loligo/squid/index.html . At the same website there are a number of links to more information about these interesting squid.