Friday Cephalopod: Lovable little larva

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Enteroctopus zealandicus

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It looks like a lovable little larva lamp.

By neon-elf.myope… (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

Love the gold iridescence. What causes that?

By stevieinthecity (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

It's beautiful! Can I cuddle it?

By alysonmiers (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

aaawww.. it's like a lovable little semi-transparent cthulu-jelly-bear

By patrick.kanne (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

He's got your eyes, PZ.

Awwww...it is so cute! I'm making this my desktop background.

I will take him home and I will feed him and water him and cuddle him and play with him and take him for swims and call him George.

It amazes me how we mammals easily find such distantly related creatures to be so damn cuuute!

awww,... This is the way all monsters start. Cute and cuddly one minute and then before you know it, they are ripping off your head and sucking your brains out.
Nautilus

Aaaack-ack-ack-ack-aaaaaaaack-ACK-ackackackackack-AAAACK-ackack.

My cephalopod obsessed daughter says "Awwwwwww"

Friday Cephalopod is about her favorite thing on ScienceBlogs...

(She's four, so the articles haven't yet caught her attention.)

By PrairieDawn (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

Very cute. I'd bring one home and call it Clark, but would my mother like it?

@ PrairieDawn #14:
I'm glad to hear your daughter's starting young!

By Hekuni Cat (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

It;s the larva my life.

What happened to Bikont Wednesday?

By Antiochus Epiphanes (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

What's the scale of the picture? How long is the little guy? Any guesses? I'm guessing it's a microphotograph, and the critter's a half-inch to an inch long...?

By Paul Burnett (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

Hekuni Cat

I had to endure tears a couple of weeks ago when all the poor dead octopods washed up on the beach.

By PrairieDawn (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

So sad to hear that the poor things don't live very long -- and that sex is deadly to them.

By phoenixwoman (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

@18, the bright splotch near the top left corner is the Milky Way. How cute is it NOW? :o)

By randydudek (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

I think this is the creature ET really met when he visited earth.

I'd like to have a pet cephalopod, but I'd feel awfully guilty if the little sucker escaped.

#7 gettingfree
You can also join the group I just created to get together 1 million people who don't believe in gravity. With the power of our disbelief we will break the shackles of the earth and soar among the clouds, and then probably drift off into space. Yes, facts be damned! Down with gravity!
This group does not accept Farmville addicts. We have to have SOME standards.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-can-find-1000000-people-who-dont-belie…

By Mike Wagner (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

@Glen #9

Puts me in mind of David Bowie giving Candy Clark an alien-sex-ed session (involving some seriously slimey sheets) in "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

Although Bugeyes Bubblehead here looks a bit like Caspar-the-Ghost to me...

By Thunderbird 5 (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

"There is this lame group trying to get together 1 million IDiots who DON'T believe in evolution...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/we-can-find-1000000-people-who-dont-belie…"

The ID Army cranks up another one and herewegoagain.

This is what your stereotypical Jesuswheezing denizen of Facebook thinks is contemporary culture-jamming. Such pathetic desperation generally says more about the host than the subject: I envisage some sorryarse Liberty/ORU student fapping off to this their idea of Rebelling For Jebus and the credits they'll gain from their creotard of a tutor. And I can see it culminating in some sort of Powerbook presentation, ending with the host exhorting the class to join him in bouncing along to the finale: those sideways-hug rappers whose inspirational sex-lumps-under-clothing horripilations have gone viral (not that their frigid fans understand why but there you go).

Anyway, I thought this class of creotard populist stunt had been well and truly pwned by Project Steve.

By Thunderbird 5 (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

"In response, there is this group trying to get together 1 million who do accept evolution...
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#/pages/We-can-find-1000000-people-who… "

No no no, this is not the way to do it. Just send them a message wishing them good luck in their laudable and constructive endeavour and to request that, as we shan't be counting, they let us know when they've worked out how to clear their cookies and so reach their mil.

And ask them to explain precisely what they're trying to achieve.

By Thunderbird 5 (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink

No no no. We simply need to explain the anti-gravity of the situation to them.

By Mike Wagner (not verified) on 29 Jan 2010 #permalink