Friday Cephalopod: Another lovely face

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Sepia latimanus

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

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

He looks like the Grinch when he gets a terrible, awful idea.

The curve of each tentacle is almost *fractal*. Straight and right-angle bend, shorter straight and right-angle bend.. all the way down. I wanna be able to do that!

With cringing frills like that, it's the Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen of the cephalopod world.

Definitely a starship captain in the next star wars.