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Friday Cephalopod: The classic 3/4 profile

Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: October 23, 2009 9:18 AM, by PZ Myers

Nautilus pompilius

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide ^{(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll)}, by Mark Norman.

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Posted by: nigelTheBold, Minister of Spankings | October 23, 2009 9:37 AM

The nautilus: my favorite.

Completely off-topic, I went to see Where the Wild Things Are last night. As it has been one of my favorite books for damned near 40 years, I was really excited about it. Short summary: fucking awesome. My wife bawled.

Aaaaaannyway, early in the movie, Max builds a spaceship in his room to escape earth and the dieing sun. He has all his toys inside, and I noticed he had a big rubber octopus.

I immediately thought of Pharyngula, and its cephalopod-obsessed overlord.

Posted by: Beardedone | October 23, 2009 9:38 AM

Yes! My absolute favorite Cephalo-banger. I could watch one of these hover about endlessly.

Cheers,
Gordon

Posted by: Fred The Hun | October 23, 2009 9:41 AM

Due to the limited energy expended in swimming, nautiloids need only eat once a month.The beautiful masters of efficiency and buoyancy control, the envy of any human scuba diver...

Posted by: Fred The Hun | October 23, 2009 9:43 AM

Blockquote fail if ever there was one...

Posted by: NewEnglandBob | October 23, 2009 9:48 AM

Complete with racing stripes!

Posted by: Nebula99 | October 23, 2009 9:52 AM

It's okay, Fred. I can't make blockquotes at all.

Complete with racing stripes!

Here's an attempt. *crosses fingers and hits Post*

Posted by: daveau | October 23, 2009 10:03 AM

Just like a movie star. (Yay, Friday!)

Posted by: Nebula99 | October 23, 2009 10:15 AM

Yay! That time it worked.

Posted by: Ceratopsian | October 23, 2009 10:44 AM

YAY Nautilus!
I'm still pulling for some fossil Friday cephalopods though. Come on, some nice ammonite suture patterns, or maybe a pyritized shell, or even some ammolite... cephalopods were cool long before they were all squishy, you know, as this poor lonely guy demonstrates! :)

#10

Posted by: Abdul Alhazred | October 23, 2009 10:50 AM

[blockquote]Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul![/blockquote]

#11

Posted by: Mark Eagleton | October 23, 2009 10:55 AM

Hooray!

Mr. Chambered Nautilus is my favorite creature in the sea. If I were Boba Fett, I would turn the Slave 1 into this.

#12

Posted by: Glen Davidson | October 23, 2009 11:01 AM

I've been waiting for that one.

I'll be much happier still with a picture of a living ammonite, however.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p

#13

Posted by: Happy Tentacles | October 23, 2009 11:46 AM

He looks so relaxed! A chilled out Cephalopod . . .

#14

Posted by: Hillary Rettig / www.lifelongactivist.com | October 23, 2009 11:54 AM

Love it! the "ship of pearl"

#15

Posted by: Tony Lloyd | October 23, 2009 12:04 PM

So what is the difference between a Nautilus and an Ammonite?

I keep hearing that all the Ammonites went West with the Dinosaurs. But wouldn't it be true to say "all the Ammonites except..."?

#16

Posted by: SaraJ | October 23, 2009 12:08 PM

Whoa, there's another SaraJ... creepy.

#17

Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | October 23, 2009 12:36 PM

So what is the difference between a Nautilus and an Ammonite?

A lot. In fact, it seems that the ammonoids are more closely related to the coleoids (squid, cuttlefish, octopuses) than to the nautiloids.

#18

Posted by: Ceratopsian | October 23, 2009 12:52 PM

Whoops, I sorry, I definitely wasn't trying to impersonate anyone, other SaraJ! It's just my name.
Maybe I'll come up with something else for my once-in-a-blue-moon comments.

#19

Posted by: Dan Earle | October 23, 2009 1:50 PM

It is a lovely looking Cephalopod, it maybe just that im hungry but he sure looks tasty to me, can u eat them?

#20

Posted by: DagoRed | October 23, 2009 2:40 PM

Yep, you can eat them. They are eaten in the Philippines at least. But then again, there's not much one can find in the sea not eaten in the Philippines by somebody.

#21

Posted by: Edgar | October 23, 2009 3:08 PM

They eat once a month, live several years, cool, Nautilus seems more suitable to be an "aquaria ceph" than squid!!!!

How big would be a nautilus tank?

#22

Posted by: Mikel | October 23, 2009 3:24 PM

Ah, I'll always think of the nautilous as the species with a pin-hole camera eye. What good is half an eye? Half as good :)

#23

Posted by: SaraJ | October 23, 2009 5:30 PM

Oh, don't worry about it other SaraJ. I just had to laugh because I have known so many other Sara(h)s in my life but never another SaraJ so it was a little startling at first.

#24

Posted by: Sven DiMilo | October 23, 2009 5:34 PM

Nautilus as pets:
probably not a good idea.

#25

Posted by: NixManes | October 23, 2009 10:11 PM

Is that the cheese sandwich with the image of Jesus stuck on there?

#26

Posted by: eddie | October 23, 2009 11:32 PM

From Sven's link @24 -