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Friday Cephalopod: Number Six
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms • Science
Posted on: February 6, 2009 6:07 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Pope Maledict DCLXVI | February 6, 2009 6:34 AM
Number 6: I won't be a goldfish in a bowl!
Posted by: Kate | February 6, 2009 6:53 AM
I was going to make a poe-ish statement about pre-born cuttlefish... but I got distracted by the cute. I'll be "Awwwwwwwww"-ing all day now.
Posted by: Bob O'H | February 6, 2009 7:00 AM
Oh no, it's an immature Rover.
Posted by: Katkinkate | February 6, 2009 7:28 AM
Big egg for a little cuttlefish.
Posted by: Dubaarh | February 6, 2009 7:29 AM
Shouldn't there be a glowing spine? Oh wait, wrong Number Six.
Yep, very cute.
Posted by: Nomen Nescio | February 6, 2009 7:41 AM
that would be cuter if i could tell which end was which.
Posted by: Kate | February 6, 2009 7:59 AM
Um, Nomen, the front is the bit with the eyes and the wee little tentacles. (At the bottom of the picture)
SQUEEEEEEEEEEE! Lookit the widdle tentacles! SQUEEEEEEEE!
Posted by: Bone Oboe | February 6, 2009 8:14 AM
Looks just the sort of thing Johnathan Hurt would definitely want to stay away from. Lest some little critter latch onto his face and shove it's ovipositor down his throat. He'll feel fine for a little while after he awakes from the brief coma...There may be some difficulties later, though.
Posted by: Jeanette | February 6, 2009 8:26 AM
Keeeyute. It looks otherworldly, too, like some alien creature seated in a balloon.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | February 6, 2009 8:37 AM
I hate family album time.
so embarrassing.
Posted by: Steve Ulven | February 6, 2009 9:54 AM
Is that Tricia Helfer as a Cylon fetus?
Posted by: Ouchimoo | February 6, 2009 10:04 AM
A party balloon!
Posted by: Miss Elaine | February 6, 2009 10:05 AM
Cute, but the memory of Patrick McGoohan has now made me sad.
Posted by: 0verlord
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February 6, 2009 10:16 AM
We want information. Information! INFORMATION!
Posted by: Jason | February 6, 2009 10:18 AM
Cuttle's comment... win. again.
Posted by: KI | February 6, 2009 10:30 AM
I'm kinda reminded of the ending of "2001:A Space Odyssey". Cue the music...dah dah dahhh DAH DAH boom boom boom boom boom boom boom.
Posted by: yorktank | February 6, 2009 10:54 AM
I'm so glad today's cephalopod is a cuttlefish. The other night my girlfriend asked what a cuttlefish was (she's reading some sci-fi book about alien contact and the aliens' eyes were described as being like those of cuttlefish). Anyway, she was positively stunned by my zeal in searching for images of cuttlefish to show her to the point that she thought I was being facetious.
Also, I echo the sentiment that, as usual, Cuttlefish's comment is pure win.
Posted by: MtotheJ | February 6, 2009 11:21 AM
I refuse to be classified, studied, labeled, photographed,genetically mapped...
Posted by: The Perky Skeptic | February 6, 2009 11:22 AM
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww, so ADORABLE!!!! Human babies should be so cute! :D
Posted by: Glen Davidson | February 6, 2009 11:28 AM
Sure he's cute, until he's spitting up saltwater into your face as you cuddle him through the wee hours of the morning.
But it's all worth it when we hear the exclamations as people get a good look at him in the stroller. To be truthful, though, some people say he looks less like me than that fellow in the aquarium...
Glen D
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Posted by: blasphimus | February 6, 2009 11:45 AM
as the japanese would say: KAWAII *_*
Posted by: Patricia, OM | February 6, 2009 12:27 PM
Awww, Cuttle Jr. is too cute.
Posted by: pwl
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February 6, 2009 2:35 PM
Is it just me who sees the person on the skin of Number 6 with a star (the person is to the left while the person is on the right)? It's a miracle, it's one of the three wise men holding a plate of gold to enrich me. Very cool miracle! Gotta love those images that keep popping up; why just the other day I saw his noodley wholeness in the clouds but before I could get my video camera out he dissipated. Still it was a yummy visitation. ;-)
Posted by: pwl
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February 6, 2009 2:37 PM
Actually it almost looks like a klingon forehead... yikes...
Posted by: tcb | February 6, 2009 2:40 PM
"Who is Number One?"
You are Number Six.
How would you punctuate the second sentence?
Posted by: llewelly | February 6, 2009 8:06 PM
Don't you heartless monsters know this is exactly what a baby looks like before it born!!! How can you evil atheists possibly want to abort such a beautiful creature!!!
Posted by: DLC | February 7, 2009 12:46 AM
Who are you?
The new Number Two.
Who's Number One?
You are Number Six.
Posted by: alufelgi do bmw | February 7, 2009 9:30 AM
In my opinion the largest threat for California are cataclysms and ecological catastrophes. Not important is how many money we have because one tragedy can us take all.
Posted by: Sili | February 7, 2009 1:08 PM
Huh?
And at the risk of repeating myself: huh?
Then again - I've never read XIII.
Posted by: John Phillips, FCD | February 7, 2009 2:24 PM
Cuttlefish @ #10 :-D