PZ Myers' Friday Cephalopods

[pieces o nine]

Perhaps you could incorporate a chorus line of flourescent squidlings [think Cirque du Soleil-style costumes] in your next theatrical offering?



That would also make a nice parachute group formation.   

[Opsa]

Ooh, I wonder if anyone has made a parachute jump using dayglo costumes and black light spotlights.

[Aggie]

I wish I could animate them walking around like little armies.

They do look like little soldiers, don't they?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I imagine you can modify them genetically to glow while alive.

[Roland Deschain]

I imagine you can modify them genetically to glow while alive.

Yes you can. It's been done with ornamental fish for the aquarium trade, and also with mice. Ironically, the genes that code for the glowing come from either squid or algae, I can't remember which right now.

It's a pretty display, although it's a shame if they had to die to provide us with the pretty.

[Opsa]

Maybe they are part of the "die young and leave a beautiful corpse" vein of thought. I used to be of that philosophy, but then I got old and homely.

[Aphos]

Apologies.  I'm a day late and a dollar short.

Here we have a tentacle of a vampire squid.





For more strange and beautiful undersea life, see...

http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/pelagic%20animals.html

[Sibling DavidH]

Are you sure that thing is native to our planet?

[Aphos]

Are you sure that thing is native to our planet?

Yeah, looks like something out of Alien, doesn't it.  Lots of really weird looks life under the sea.

[Swatopluk]

The way it is photographed it looks also like the tail end of an archaic proto-dinosaur, halfway between a polacanthus and a dimetrodon.

[Roland Deschain]

The way it is photographed it looks also like the tail end of an archaic proto-dinosaur, halfway between a polacanthus and a dimetrodon.

It could also be a cross between a Pterosaur and a giant centipede.

[Aphos]

The way it is photographed it looks also like the tail end of an archaic proto-dinosaur, halfway between a polacanthus and a dimetrodon.

It could also be a cross between a Pterosaur and a giant centipede.

Looks like one of the monster critters in Pitch Black.





Well, not really.  But something about it brings it to mind.

[Aphos]

Yeah!!!  It's Friday!  And you know what that means.  A new cephalopod!



Here's a coot li'l feller.

[Aggie]

Looks like a piece of well-made glassware from a head shop.

[Swatopluk]

Looks like a piece of well-made glassware from a head shop.

Glass or balloon indeed. Very cute.