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Friday Cephalopod: Everyone wants to be one of the cool kids

Category: CephalopodsOrganisms
Posted on: January 13, 2012 1:13 PM, by PZ Myers

Look at this: no originality at all. The wanna-bes and poseurs all have to dress up in their idol's fashions, even if it is cross-phylum dressing.

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(via NatGeo)

(Also on FtB)

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Posted by: salvage Author Profile Page | January 13, 2012 5:04 PM

I wonder if the Mimic Octopus's more unrecognizable shapes are from an extinct species of something?

#2

Posted by: KingUber Author Profile Page | January 15, 2012 10:05 PM

I know a song that will make PZ's head explode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyua-PR1P5o&feature=related

On the one hand, it has the line "no gods will be our masters".

On the other hand, it's about killing a cephalopod.

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