PZ Myers' Friday Cephalopods

[Opsa]

This week, itty bitty (very itty bitty) squidlings...



There's virtually no depth of field, which means this is an extreme close up and those guys are really small.

Ooh, they're so cute! I hope no-one mistakes them for holiday light bulbs and tries to plug them into their Yule tree. They might object.

[Sibling DavidH]

The one on the left - Albert, I think his name is - has got brown spots.  Is this bad?

[Opsa]

Maybe he's just burnt out.

[Sibling DavidH]

As long as he hasn't caught something off our squidlings.

[Aphos]

Sorry...a bit late this week.  Here it is...

[Opsa]

Yes folks, it's Extrude-a-Squid! Now available in handsome autumn auburn...

[Darlica]

Warning!
Squid wrangling can result in nasty suction marks!



_{Not to mention what will happen if/when the tentacled ones finds out that the air mask is removable and that pesky strange animal needs it to stay alive...}

[The Meromorph]

Don't squids have serious hooks intermixed with their suckers on their tentacles?
Wrestling with a squid would turn nasty without any bad intent on the squid's part...    

[Opsa]

"Aw gee, Mister- he was just playing with yuh! He didn't mean to tear yuh limb from limb!"

[Sibling DavidH]

It's a mutant seal. 

[Swatopluk]

Don't squids have serious hooks intermixed with their suckers on their tentacles?
Wrestling with a squid would turn nasty without any bad intent on the squid's part...    

Some species have, e.g. the vicious Humboldt Squid and the Colossal Squid, most haven't. This one looks like neither of these (unless they are babies).

[Aphos]

Don't squids have serious hooks intermixed with their suckers on their tentacles?
Wrestling with a squid would turn nasty without any bad intent on the squid's part...    

Some species have, e.g. the vicious Humboldt Squid and the Colossal Squid, most haven't. This one looks like neither of these (unless they are babies).

Actually, I think that is a Humboldt.  Note the "muzzle" around the tentacles, I suspect to keep from getting nasty bites from the beak.


This week...

Oops...it's not a cephalopod at all.  It's a larval bivalve.  But it does have tentacles.

[Swatopluk]

Somehow I hear dancing music when looking at that picture

[Sibling DavidH]

I see a flower.

[Swatopluk]

Or a very randy cockle