PZ Myers' Friday Cephalopods

[Swatopluk]

If it's over ten feet long, I don't like it.

extremitist!

[Roland Deschain]

Those pancakes are amazing. I want to make mine like that!

Aaahhhh, I like the little squidling. It's cute.

[Aphos]

Here's our little friend the Flamboyant Cuttlefish again.

[Swatopluk]

Looks more like the rabbit-eared orchid to me

[Opsa]

Holy sea-cow! I think I can make out an eye, but I can't figure out the rest of him!

[Roland Deschain]

Now that is one flamboyant Cuttlefish! Beautiful, but looking nothing like any other Cuttlefish i've ever seen. I can make out 2 eyes on the one on the right, and 1 obvious one on the one on the left, but they do indeed look like orchids (or more appropriately, coral).

[Swatopluk]

I have the suspicion that they are related to this nice fellow.

[Aphos]

Time to play hide and seek...

[Aphos]

Now that is one flamboyant Cuttlefish! Beautiful, but looking nothing like any other Cuttlefish i've ever seen. I can make out 2 eyes on the one on the right, and 1 obvious one on the one on the left, but they do indeed look like orchids (or more appropriately, coral).

I think the flamboyant cuttlefish are really beautiful, but they are also very, very poisonous.  They are about as poisonous as the blue ringed octopus.  Together, these are the only two poisonous cephalopods.

[Swatopluk]

This one tries to disguise itself as a fractal

[Sibling DavidH]

Do they sting you, or are they just poisonous to eat?

[Aphos]

Do they sting you, or are they just poisonous to eat?

They deliver it through their tentacles to kill prey, I believe.  It is also a defense against predators, which is why they have the flamboyant coloring..."Danger:  Poisonous".

[Roland Deschain]

Where's the cephalopod? All I can see is sand.

[Sibling DavidH]

It looks like a haggis with bolt-on extras of some kind.

[Aphos]