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Friday Cephalopod: Say hello to my little friend
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: December 11, 2009 8:31 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: daveau
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December 11, 2009 9:49 AM
We should all have friends like that. Yay, Friday! (even though I'm at home sick today)
Posted by: Lily
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December 11, 2009 9:55 AM
I'm so jealous! I want to go diving with Cthulhu!
Posted by: eddie
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December 11, 2009 11:19 AM
The 'little friend' is the one top-left. the big red one is the feind ;-)
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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December 11, 2009 12:11 PM
So, is that what it'd look like if I weren't snipped?
Goddamn Catholic parents!
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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December 11, 2009 2:41 PM
Fell out of a tree?
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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December 11, 2009 2:56 PM
Nah, it's still in there. Don't you see the foliage?
The diveress is photoshopped in.
(It's part of the conspiracy, you see.)
Posted by: SebastesMan
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December 11, 2009 3:45 PM
Humboldt State University's marine lab has a wall of fish tanks in the main hall and one of them usually contains one of these beasties. Local fishermen or people connected to the lab find small juveniles from time to time and take them to the lab. When an individual outgrows the public tank, it's released back into the local bay and a new one, when available takes its place.
It's pretty wild when one is "shedding." The octopus writhes and wriggles and rubs it's tentacles together until the top layer of skin in the suction cups sloughs off. The shed skin looks a bit like weird little jellyfish floating around in the water.
Posted by: MadScientist
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December 11, 2009 4:34 PM
Wow - I've never seen such a huge octopus - except in very bad movies.
Posted by: sasqwatch
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December 11, 2009 5:50 PM
Diving Puget Sound? Probably not, as it looks like a wet suit (not a dry suit). Really cool to dive with those curious buggers in any case.
Posted by: Rob Powell
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December 11, 2009 10:14 PM
I would like to humbly submit members of the order Sepiida for the next friday cephalopod
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