Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis
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Friday Cephalopod: It's the eyes that make him so adorable
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: September 11, 2009 8:09 AM, by PZ Myers
Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis
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Posted by: chrisD | September 11, 2009 8:16 AM
I could have sworn I've seen this bugger highlighted on here before. Is this a rerun?
Posted by: felixthecat
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September 11, 2009 8:17 AM
The eyes, yes, but also those wittle tentacles, that little fat belly, and those adorable little wings.
Posted by: TEO | September 11, 2009 8:27 AM
(Inhales profoundly)...
AAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Posted by: Brian English | September 11, 2009 8:29 AM
Obviously PZ is setting us up. Look again at the eyes. That's on pissed of Headfoot* suffering from small HeadFoot syndrome. Fear the bite of it's ineffectual beak.
*You work it out.
Posted by: Michael Dickens | September 11, 2009 8:32 AM
That little cutie!
Its head is massive.
Posted by: Paholaisen Asianajaja | September 11, 2009 8:42 AM
My Little Cthulhu!
Posted by: Somnolent Aphid | September 11, 2009 8:44 AM
Article on NPR this AM about squid neurons reminded me that it was cephalopod phriday.
Posted by: Holbach | September 11, 2009 8:48 AM
You are in my grasp, er, power, so relax and let me embrace you with delectation, er, affection.
Posted by: Nangleator | September 11, 2009 8:49 AM
Imagine being so small parts of you are transparent...
And yet you're still an ominous presence of indescribable evil!
Posted by: Andyman | September 11, 2009 8:50 AM
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Posted by: Jim A. | September 11, 2009 8:58 AM
It's the eyes that make him so adorable
Well they ARE irreducably complex....
Ducks, runs away...
Posted by: HPSG
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September 11, 2009 9:03 AM
It also the fact he's Hawaiian probably.
Posted by: MadScientist | September 11, 2009 9:07 AM
Awww, isn't that cute? It's even wearing the pope's condom hat.
Posted by: Rakehell | September 11, 2009 9:10 AM
Did I hit Cute Overload by mistake? Not that I'm complaining...
Posted by: SEF | September 11, 2009 9:10 AM
It's not just the eyes - though he doesn't have that characteristic cephalopod slit to them. It's the whole package. Eg the small overall size, the delicate little tentacles (so many more than a baby elephant has to wave around), the diaphanous membranes and even the beaten copper/bronze effect "helmet" - like a cartoon baby martian.
Posted by: BeccaTheCyborg | September 11, 2009 9:11 AM
Awww! It's so cute!
I wanna make silly cooing noises at it.
Posted by: Creature of the Universe | September 11, 2009 9:11 AM
looks like something I found in my cereal this morning except whatever it was had a little less eye
Posted by: MrFire | September 11, 2009 9:17 AM
No say I! It's an old-fashioned racing helmet!
Posted by: NewEnglandBob
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September 11, 2009 9:17 AM
Didn't I see that creature hovering over the highway years ago as I headed home from the bar?
Posted by: AdamK | September 11, 2009 9:17 AM
I thought it looked like a widdle thor's-winged-helmet.
Posted by: daveau | September 11, 2009 9:24 AM
Sniny! Hang loose, li'l squid. (Yay, Friday!)
Posted by: nigelTheBold, Minister of Spankings
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September 11, 2009 9:27 AM
Anime Cthulhu thinks you would taste good with duck sauce.
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | September 11, 2009 9:38 AM
Lovely indeed.
Actually, it's the back. On both sides. Cephalopods are U-shaped.
Posted by: recovering catholic | September 11, 2009 9:50 AM
This must be a baby??? So sweet wid its widdle teeny tentacles!
And thanks to one of the OM posters (can't remember which one) yesterday for resurrecting sniny in the Trophy Wife's birthday greetings. We must not let PZ ever forget about aniny sniny sniny sniny.
Posted by: Steve_C | September 11, 2009 9:50 AM
I want one!!!
Posted by: Noether | September 11, 2009 9:59 AM
Holy crap that is so damn cute.
Posted by: felixthecat
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September 11, 2009 10:07 AM
"Lovely indeed.
that little fat belly
Actually, it's the back. On both sides. Cephalopods are U-shaped."
Reason #3416 why I left grad school for law school.
Posted by: SaintStephen | September 11, 2009 10:12 AM
Heavens to Murgatroyd!!! It's Marvin the Martian!
http://www.gargaro.com/marvin.html
Grab your sunscreen and run for your lives, before he employs the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator!!!
Posted by: recovering catholic | September 11, 2009 10:19 AM
Do we really know it's boy, and if so, how do we know?
Posted by: daveau
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September 11, 2009 10:20 AM
recovering catholic@24
Hey! My feelings are hurt. I have regularly used the word sniny since it first appeared. But only if something actually is sniny.
Posted by: aratina cage
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September 11, 2009 10:41 AM
That is a cutie-patootie. He reminds me of the tadpoles I used to catch in the summer.
Posted by: Pareidolius | September 11, 2009 10:43 AM
Ladies! He's darling and totally hetero . . . teuthis.
Posted by: (O)CT(O)PUS | September 11, 2009 10:48 AM
Today is my birthday
Posted by: (O)CT(O)PUS | September 11, 2009 10:50 AM
Today is my birthday
Posted by: octopod | September 11, 2009 11:07 AM
OMG chibi squid! And the little leather-sport-helmet mantle...you're killing me with cute here.
Is this critter a baby, or just super-neotenic?
Posted by: octopod | September 11, 2009 11:09 AM
Ous. Neotenous.
::facepalm::
Posted by: Happy Tentacles
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September 11, 2009 12:36 PM
He's SO adorable! Such a sweet face, and all those cute little tentacles!
Posted by: wright | September 11, 2009 1:57 PM
Kawaaaiii!!!
Posted by: Tobias | September 11, 2009 2:40 PM
Is that real? Kawaaaiii!!!
Posted by: Brian | September 11, 2009 3:31 PM
Anyone else notice that The Stranger, Seattle's weekly rag strayed from their usual socio-political focus: their feature article is about octopuses, and giant octopuses in the Pacific Northwest in particular. Very cool!
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/sexy-beast/Content?oid=2190805
Posted by: Inky | September 11, 2009 4:55 PM
EeeeeEEEEEEEE!!
"I shall call him Squishy, and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy."
Posted by: toberose | September 11, 2009 5:27 PM
cute!!!
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | September 11, 2009 6:45 PM
What a blunt mind you have. That they are so different internally while looking so unremarkable on the outside makes them more interesting, not less.
Being curled up also makes them more inherently globular and thus cuter. I'm thinking of my little sister here, who had 4.39 kg at birth... :-)
See how much you're missing?
What? Not in my field.
Posted by: moonkitty | September 11, 2009 7:40 PM
Cute my ass! Pop that on top of a Roman Centurian's body and he's the perfect soldier/minion for Cthulhu!
(Um, does Cthulhu have soldier/minions?)
Posted by: Odonata | September 12, 2009 9:21 AM
According to Wikipedia, Friday Cephalopod, Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis, is "a species of bobtail squid native to the central and western Pacific Ocean. It occurs in waters off Hawaii, Bonin, the Ryukyu Islands, Indonesia, and the Great Australian Bight."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroteuthis_hawaiiensis
Posted by: arachnophilia | September 12, 2009 10:44 AM
what's with all the cthulhu comments? he totally looks like admiral akbar.