PZ Myers' Friday Cephalopods

[Aphos]

Hi Guys!  TGIF.




The ability to display colors in squid and cuttlefish never ceases to amaze me.

[Opsa]

Ooh! He looks like a horizontal lava lamp!

[Aphos]

Squidus lavalampus???

[Aphos]

TGICF...Thank Gawd It's Cephalopod Friday.




And here's a video of a badass octopus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q36_8s5z6S8&feature=player_embedded

[Opsa]

Oh! Those are pretty little guys!

As for the video- hey- I've eaten dogfish too! I have a great dogfish lasagna recipe i could give that octopus.

[Aphos]

Oh! Those are pretty little guys!

As for the video- hey- I've eaten dogfish too! I have a great dogfish lasagna recipe i could give that octopus.

Ever had octopus sushi?

[Swatopluk]

The last picture looks more like a drawing than a photography

[Opsa]

What sort of squid are those gorgeous little bronze fellahs?

[Sibling DavidH]

They're the Anglo-French Concorde squids with the droop nose.

[Aphos]

What sort of squid are those gorgeous little bronze fellahs?

You would ask that.

The picture is from Sidney Harbour, but the site doesn't say what type of squid it is.  You can see more of the photographer's work here...

http://www.watoday.com.au/multimedia/environment/sydney-harbours-underwater-treasures/20100408-rurb.html

I have to agree with Swato.  At first glance I though that was something drawn with pastels.

[Opsa]

My first thought was sea arrows, but they seem to have more winglike perambulators (flagellators?) on each side.

[Aphos]

Well, it's the Saturday after Friday, and here is the new pic...






And even the Romans were obsessed with cephalopods...




Is octopus-man playing baseball?

[Sibling DavidH]

I'd rather not imagine what he might be doing to that tentalcy thing.

[Swatopluk]

That's one of the giants that fought the gods.
Those are not tentacles! Those are copulating with your female parent ophidians on the copulating with your female parent mythological plane of existence!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/DSC04529a_Istanbul_-_Museo_archeol._-_Gigantomachia_-_sec._II_d.C._-_da_Afrodisia_-_Foto_G._Dall%27Orto_28-5-2006.jpg

[Sibling DavidH]

Wot? 
_{I think he's just a dirty ole blaggard.}