PZ Myers' Friday Cephalopods

[Swatopluk]

As literally earthborn creatures they can be expected to be dirty

[Opsa]

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

Good lord, he's got snakes for legs! Maybe Athena there is saying "...and don't come crawling back to me!"

[Swatopluk]

Athena has the head with snake hair on her shield (tastefully not pointed at the viewer).


http://peterswordoftheday.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/aegis.jpg

[pieces o nine]

Good lord, he's got snakes for legs! Maybe Athena there is saying "...and don't come crawling back to me!"

[Aggie]

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!

I still haven't got around to seeing that movie. 

[Swatopluk]

New discovery: Ancestor (500 million years ago) of modern squids had only two tentacles

http://www.morgenpost.de/multimedia/archive/00657/krake_DW_Wissenscha_657067b.jpg

[Aphos]

Aw, Swato, you beat me to it.

PZ has a post up about this little guy...

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/mother_of_all_squid.php

About 2 inches (4 cm) long.

Previously, there was only one rather poor fossil for this species.  Recently, they discovered 91 fairly well preserved fossils, allowing for much more detail to be discovered.

He's causing some reconsideration about cephalopod evolution.

[Opsa]

he looks like some kind of Pixar Studios character. Petrushka the Prehistoric Squidling?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

What would've Stravinsky thought about that reference?

[Opsa]

Hopefully he would not take it as an insult to his work! Maybe I would have to preface it with our taddy admiration for the squidling, as well as all things prehistoric. Of course, if he was a creationist, he might be a bit miffed at the assumption of prehistoric beasties.

[Aphos]

Speaking of squidlings...

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Babies!
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Hopefully he would not take it as an insult to his work! Maybe I would have to preface it with our taddy admiration for the squidling, as well as all things prehistoric. Of course, if he was a creationist, he might be a bit miffed at the assumption of prehistoric beasties.

According to wikipedia:

The Rite of Spring was further popularized through Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940), an animated  feature film in which original animated images and stories were combined with works of classical music.
[snip]
Stravinsky described the performance as "execrable" and thought the segment as a whole "involved a dangerous misunderstanding".

I know the guy was rigorous and extremely critical of many things, so the association to one of his works (Petroushka) to Fantasia might've given him urticaria. As for him being creationist, I can't find any relation to that, he was religious (Orthodox) but incredibly well educated so it's hard to tell. Now, politically -according to politicalcompass.org- he was a right wing authoritarian:

As to how much can you extrapolate from that I don't know.

[Opsa]

Ha! Off topic, but fascinating, all the same! Ya wanna start that in another discussion?

Dem squidlings look like boids!

[Aphos]

What does one call a bunch of squidlings?

[The Meromorph]

A "mob of squidlings"  (Oxford version)
A "maul of squidlings" (Cambridge version)
A "boiling of squidlings" (Scottish version)
A "banquet of squidlings" (Japanese version)