Friday Cephalopod: I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

For some reason, Grimpoteuthis always makes me think of Wimpy.

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(via Frozenly, which also has a number of other photos of weird creatures found in the Mariana Trench)

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Did a stork deliver this one too?

By Rev. BigDumbChimp (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

Hey--it's Day-Glo Mr. Potato Head!

Sorry PZ, but that's clearly Admiral Ackbar. Unless of course, we're meant to think that. It's a trap!

By Brownian, OM (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

Bring out the Grimp.

The Grimp is sleeping.

Well then, I guess you better wake him up.

I am almost embarrassed.

By Janine, Mistre… (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

How come he's wearing my old brothel-creepers ?

By and7barton (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

Naw, it's an animated lima bean.

When I saw the picture I actually first thought it looked like a parrot.

Awww. Almost as adorable as a piglet squid (my personal favorite weird cephalopod.)

By queensowntalia (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

Wow, an irridescent rock started to walk around in slippers.

Abiogenesis right before your eyes, Stephen Meyer.

Glen D
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By Glen Davidson (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

I am almost embarrassed.

almost

By Rev. BigDumbChimp (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

Good golly Miss Molly. It's Gonzo's nose gone wild!

By aratina cage o… (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

piglet squid

Oh dear Cosmic Muffin, don't let Ken Ham know about them.

By Rev. BigDumbChimp (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

Good grief - have you seen some of the other delightful creatures on the Frozenly page? Ping-pong tree sponge? Munnopsis? Wow.

Clearly, nothing like those could have evolved, so we must accept that H.R.Giger is in fact god.

By timrowledge (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

More like Wimpoteuthis, amirite?

By Squiddhartha (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

I wish to second the following:

An "iridescent" "Admiral Ackbar" "Head" with "brothel-creepers".

Well done all. A full identification.

Fools!

It is none but the Dread himself, Cthulhu... as a baby.

17:

A very decorous finger-cot, for those formal (but not too formal) occasions?

What an amazing site Frozenly is.

I am all about the bacteria normally but that makes me want to switch to marine biology and spend the rest of my life in the Mariana Trench.

so we are agreed ? - It's a

Iridoakhbarbonce brothelcreepii

By and7barton (not verified) on 26 Feb 2010 #permalink

Where'd the squid get those Doc Martens?

Neat, but this pic (and the pics from Frozenly) were snatched from www.thedeepbook.org/ and should credit that site/book. Author Claire Nouvian. Looks like a cool book btw.

By medusakatt (not verified) on 27 Feb 2010 #permalink

Uh-oh. I once scanned in some photos from that book and posted them with full attribution, links to where you could purchase it, etc. -- and I got so much grief from the people behind it that I had to yank the pictures off the web.

Well you can chalk up a sale - after tracking down the source, I bought it ;-)

By medusakatt (not verified) on 27 Feb 2010 #permalink