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Friday Cephalopod: Telescope octopus

By pharyngula on October 13, 2006.
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Amphitretus pelagicus

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

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What an awesome octopus!

By Paguroidea (not verified) on 13 Oct 2006 #permalink

This guy must have played a part in the "Abyss" movie...

I gotta get me that book one of these days.

Hmmm, I can't see the picture. I tried Firefox, Explorer, and Netscape. Anyone else aving this problem?

Any other links to the picture?

I had no problem and I'm using Firefox.

This might be something of a dumb question: did they put it under UV to make it glow like that, or is it just an effect of the light it was photographed in?

Amazing. Yet another example of their superiority and inevitable dominance in the evolutionary chain. Bet he can cut it up on the dance floor as well.