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Friday Cephalopod: Three eerie green embryos

Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: October 31, 2008 6:25 AM, by PZ Myers

Loligo pealei embryos

Figure from Nikon Small World Gallery.

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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!

#10

Posted by: John Morales | October 31, 2008 7:49 AM

s1do, bueno, sí, pero es solamente una bonita imagen :)
PZ no dice nada mas.

#11

Posted by: djlactin | October 31, 2008 8:13 AM

"eerie green embryos". Now there's a great name for an alt/indie band!

#12

Posted by: murgadroid | October 31, 2008 8:35 AM

See no evil squid, hear no evil squid, speak no evil squid.

:-)

#13

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.

#14

Posted by: E.V. | October 31, 2008 8:59 AM

Christmas Carolers!
or
Radioactive Hipster Snowmen

#15

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!")

#16

Posted by: Lynnai | October 31, 2008 9:06 AM

they appear to be grinning at me.

I think I need more coffee.

#17

Posted by: Prof MTH | October 31, 2008 9:25 AM

They remind me of Oogy Boogy Man.

#18

Posted by: Justin H. | October 31, 2008 9:25 AM

They look like little witches. Norns of the Nautilus.

#19

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!

#20

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.

#21

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!

#22

Posted by: Newfie | October 31, 2008 11:01 AM

Nice. Spinal Tap's last drummer.

#23

Posted by: Dusty | October 31, 2008 12:35 PM

They look like Wombles to me!

#24

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.

#25

Posted by: Mad Hussein LOLScientist, FCD | October 31, 2008 1:23 PM

Nice hat on the guy in the middle. :-)

#26

Posted by: Jack Rawlinson` | October 31, 2008 4:39 PM

Love the pork pie hat on the middle one. Must be into ska.

#27

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.

#28

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.

#29

Posted by: hery | January 26, 2010 10:42 AM