PZ Myers' Friday Cephalopods

[Swatopluk]

Beware of the Na'vi 'gator!

[Aphos]

[Opsa]

   OMG! If I looked up and saw that floating above me, I'd probably freak.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

A mix of awe and fear indeed! An awesome picture.

[Sibling DavidH]

What's the eerie, sinister creature at the top right?  It's got all dangly bits and sticky-outy things at the front.

[Aphos]

Time again for Friday Cephalopods.

First off, teach them love of cephalopods while they're young.



And now for this week's cephalopod.

[Opsa]

Ooh! Neon polka dots! He must be poisonous.

O good Chief Cephalopodist, I hope you'll be pleased to know that I gave th' Opsalette a glow-in-the-dark octopus toy when she was around 8. It came with it's own set of plastic scuba divers! She loved it.

All the frogmen are gone, now, but the 'pus still lives in our bathroom.

[Aphos]

Ooh! Neon polka dots! He must be poisonous.

Yup.  The blue ringed octopus, if I'm not mistaken.  Little bugger, only 3 or 4 inches across and VERY poisonous.  Lives down in the Great Barrier Reef area.  (Jeez there are a lot of really poisonous things down in Oz.)

One of only 3 poisonous cephalopod species I am aware of.  The others are a squid species and a cuttlefish species.

[Aggie]

Squidlings!

[Aphos]

It's not Friday, but PZ posted a nice little video of David Attenborough and a nautilus.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/03/david_attenborough_a_nautilus.php

[Sibling DavidH]

So long as he doesn't post the one with DavidH and the naughty lass. 

[Aphos]

[Sibling DavidH]

It's an alien spacecraft.  A Nargonid Mk4a Battle Cruiser, at a guess.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I guess this would go here...

[Swatopluk]

Single-eyed? Is that mandatory? (the only one I found on the net is too)