In honor of our Toadfishiness and the squidlings, I have decided to pass along PZ Myers' Friday Cephalopods. PZ is a biologist that runs the Pharyngula blog, and he has a soft spot in his heart for all things squidly.
Last Friday's cephalopod...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/11/16/sepia.jpg)
Thank you! I am always drawn to photographs that explore the rich variety of lifeforms on our planet.
They make me very curious about man's insistence that humankind is the pinnacle of evolution. That makes me think...
(Of course, that gives me a headache, but tis better than just sittin' around being convinced of our species' supposed superiority.)
Diversity. That's the clue to survival, I think...
Cthulhu and his girlfriend? :mrgreen:
Very cool picture.
Aww! I want to hug them, but I don't think they'd like that. They're adorable.
cephalopods are cute- and way intelligent, some master the art of escape all to well. A vid here. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4007016107763801953&q=octopus) Those two look exactly like they are up against the glass either waiting for a treat or saying hello, probably both.
I like nudibranks as well- very interesting creatures- some are just stunningly beautiful. Oh and seahorses- yep love those.
They look like Jack-in-the-Pulpit Critter-Flowers. (Cute ones.)
I wanna rub their little knurled noses (that aren't noses, I know, but they're cute anyway).
Love that vid! :thankyou: :TYfg-a.com:
No wonder the squidlings escape all the time...
That would also explain why we don't have any sharks in the waters around the Monastery.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202 (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202)
:o
Sadly, PZ hasn't posted a Friday Cephalopod since the one I put up. For the season, he is doing "Squidmas", with all sorts of silly pictures and cartoons.
However, Zooillogix on ScienceBlogs posted this picture which I just had to pass along...
(http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/Favorite%2014%20-%20Hedgehogs.jpg)
:kiss2:
Hedgehogs!
I love hedgehogs!
*faints of cute over load*
Don't forget our old friend the basket* shark
(http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/marinestation/graphics/basking_shark_feeding_425.jpg)
http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/marinestation/graphics/basking_shark_feeding_425.jpg
*OK, it's basking not basket but the latter sounds much better
AHA!!! PZ has returned to putting up Friday Cephalopods. Yeah!!!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/07/sepia_latimanus.jpg)
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/PDVD_028-1.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/PDVD_028-1.jpg
By courtesy of the BBC (I think it is still Friday somewhere)
Now, why am I tempted to say Betelgeuse three times?? :mrgreen:
Would you please get out of my head Chatty!
;D
Nope, it's fun in there...all kinda cool stuff in another language, too!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :-*
Just to give you a taste of Squidmas silliness...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/11/23/squidtivity.jpg)
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 09, 2007, 04:42:12 AM
Nope, it's fun in there...all kinda cool stuff in another language, too!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :-*
Have you found the (http://www.bakabanashi.com/icons/coolcthulhu.gif) or (http://www.bakabanashi.com/icons/girl_werewolf.gif) yet?
Just tread carefully. ;)
Found the second one?? Honey, I posed for the prototype. Heck, I'm the one that made :scared: go :scared: in the first place.
:mua:
:kisshands:
I assume it is still Friday in some parts of the world.
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/calamari1.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/calamari1.jpg
Seafood on its way home from shopping
A second 'guess the movie' thread?
;)
PZ's latest Friday Cephalopod...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/20/sepiadarium.jpg)
New from PZ on 28 Dec.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/28/sepia.jpg)
They year is coming to an end. Time for meditation.
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/calamari5.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/calamari5.jpg
Shame PZ Myers seems such a busy guy - he might like to meet our squidlings - they are after all very rare and have exceedingly strange habits.
New from PZ...and it involves a Mr. Potatohead.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/11/octo_potatohead.jpg)
For Jan 18...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/18/ceph_fighting.jpg)
Addition: BTW, if you go to Pharyngula, this is an animated clip showing the two squid in combat.
Addition 2: Here's the link to the video...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/friday_cephalopod_underwater_a.php
A new Friday Cephalopods for Feb 1.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/01/tentacles_sm.jpg)
Edit: Oops, got the wrong http address.
For the coolest cephalopod of them all, type
Vampyroteuthis infernalis
into Google.
"The Vampire Squid from Hell"
Architeuthis dux
is pretty cool as well...
Yes, the vampire squid is very cool. It is a fairly new discovery. The first one was found a few years ago in a deep trench off of California (IIRC).
(http://www.mbari.org/twenty/images/vamp.jpg)
This vampire is really something:
[youtube=425,350]l3PvvT_Ktx8[/youtube]
This week's (Feb 8) Friday Cephalopod is a YouTube video again. You can see it at...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/friday_cephalopod_big_beast.php
That is so cool-- they were literally like "hey what's this thing you got attached to you dude? gotta check this thing out-- that does not belong there-- I think I'll bite it and see what it is" completely intelligent and even intuitive creatures.
and the big one- WOW! beautiful
Did I hear a 60ft/20mts in length for that monster? OMG!
Wow! Great video!
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have squids with frickin' cameras attached to their heads!
*makes note to get Swato and the squiddies to work on this*
:squidlings: :squidlings:
It's not Friday, but PZ gives us this...
Valentine's Day and squids (and other cephalopods!!!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/14/cephalopod_love.jpg)
Very nice!
PZ Myers for 22 Feb...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/21/loligo_opalescens.jpg)
Well, it's not Friday, and it's not science, but PZ gives us this interesting picture...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/27/flying_squid.jpg)
Partial Cthulhufication?
Squids on an Astral Plane?
Friday Cephalopod for 29 Feb...E Raser Day!!!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/29/metasepia_pfefferi.jpg)
Here's a weird one from PZ...a six armed octopus.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/03/hexapus.jpg)
Probably the result of an epigenetic mix-up.
Here's a cute little squidling...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/07/heteroteuthis_hawaiiensis.jpg)
Another cute squidling.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/14/bolitaena_pygmaea.jpg)
BLUE!!
I want one. I like blue... ;D
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on March 14, 2008, 09:58:14 PM
BLUE!!
I want one. I like blue... ;D
Me too! Does it also glow in the dark?
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/20/octopus_aspilosomatis.jpg)
OOOOOOOOO! TWO Friday cephalopods this week.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/27/thaumelodone_gunteri.jpg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/27/octo_tattoo.jpg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/04/nautilus_pompilius.gif)
Nautilus pompilious and some chordate
I couldn't resist the temptation to add other nautilus to the thread:
(http://www.manandmollusc.net/Shell_photos/Images/nautilus.jpg)
Zono...
A much better view of the Nautilus, plus you don't have that huge chordate distracting from the view.
The cephalopod eye
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/11/euprymna_tasmanica.jpg)
It looks very complex...
Quote from: pieces o nine on April 12, 2008, 01:32:04 AM
It looks very complex...
...gee, d'ya think? ;D
It's one of the things I like to point out to creationists, whenever they claim the human eye is too complex to have evolved.
The new Friday cephalopod...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/18/octopus_abaculus.jpg)
OK, I been hangin' out with you guys too much. I looked at that and said "Ooooh, cute"!!
Dan thinks I'm nuts and Spencer's jealous... :D
I think I have a too vivid imagination and have locked at to many LOLcat pictures lately.
I got a pic in my head of a schnauzer with an Cephalopod squeezing his snout shut and the caption:
You said it was kyoot, I got jeallos an' tried to ate it... MOM take if of! MOM!
:ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:
Although, even when jellus, Spencer wants to play with other creatures, not hurt them. (He was raised by kittehs, he had a foster brother that was a big turtle, and after he came to live with me, he had his own bebeh kitteh for 2 years.) And he's a picky eater...Truly my son.
I guess I based my vision on "hell hath fury like a terrier scorned".
;D
He's the hippie version of a terrier. Laid bark, cool...
He only gets all excited about snacks and chasin' squirrelies and chipmunks.
The latest...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/25/octopus_maorum.jpg)
That one looks really sinister
"When I learn the secrets of breathing air, you shower are in trouble...."
For May 2...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/02/sepioteuthis_sepiodea.jpg)
^ She'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much but she's got it where it counts, kid.
Ooooooo. I like this one. Purtee.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/09/octopus_marginatus.jpg)
Well, no Friday Cepholopod yet today, but here is a sea slug, courtesy of PZ.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/15/nudi.jpg)
When I first saw the picture, I would have sworn these guys were molded from Play Doh.
You can see more on National Geographic here (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/doubilet-photography)
Shouldn't the nudi photos be in Playbilge? ;)
Quote from: Agujjim on May 16, 2008, 03:35:01 PM
Shouldn't the nudi photos be in Playbilge? ;)
Sorry. Didn't think of that.
BTW, a little late, but here is the latest Friday Cephalopod...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/16/loligo_forbesi.jpg)
23 May
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/23/octopus_cyanea.jpg)
30 May
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/30/nautilus_pompilius.jpg)
That one reminds me of somebody
Quote from: Aphos on May 30, 2008, 05:01:34 PM
30 May
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/30/nautilus_pompilius.jpg)
Iz it just me, or doez dat look liek Cap'n Cronin??
In high school, my biology teacher had a nautilus shell. Gorgeous thing. Some student that had an authority problem smashed it.
Here is the Friday Cephalopd for 6 June...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/06/05/iridescent_squid.jpg)
Well, it isn't Friday, but here is PZ with a plush cephalopod someone sent him in the mail.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/06/09/pink_plush_octo.jpg)
Another nautilus for Friday Cephalopods
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/06/12/nautilus_pompilius.jpg)
Is it just me, or does this one look like a fractal?
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/06/20/blueringedsex.jpg)
That must be the quantum weather buttersquid
In the words of Eddie Izzard, "Oh, Wow!"
They are so beautiful.
New cute guy from PZ.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/04/sepioteuthis_sepioidea.jpg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/11/sepioteuthis_sepioidea.jpg)
Cephalopods making woo.
Looks like a case of tentacle rape ;)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/17/hapalochlaena_maculosa.jpg)
Bluenose should recognize this little beastie. DO NOT TOUCH!!!
Today, two for the price of one...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/08/01/Cthulhu-of-Cozumel.jpg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/08/01/eight-is-not-enough.jpg)
Not PZ's but a page devoted to cephalopods, The Cephalopod Page (http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/) which I found following a link about cephalopod intelligence (http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/behavior.php).
From a documentary made in 1958/9
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Krake1.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Krake1.jpg
Divers brought up a cockle and put it into an aquarium together with a variety of crabs snails etc.
It turned out that the entity inside the shell was not the original cockle but a small octopus. The other inhabitants of the aquarium wnet one by one to inspect the new arrival much to the octopus' displeasure. Kicking the snail off was easy but the following crab was more difficult. It still did not require the leaving of the shell.
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/krake2.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/krake2.jpg
But then the hermit crab approached and seemed to anger the octopus much more. When the hermit crab would not back off the octopus left the shell and went into a wrestling contest. Now it turned out that the octopus was female and guarding her eggs inside the shell. Some time later the baby octopuses were hatching, encouraged by their mom. All the tiny dots in the picture are living babies. Having done her work the mother went rigid and died. She later got a burial at sea in a waterfilled closed jar.
I have been a bad boy. I started this thread, but haven't posted here in a long time. About time I changed that. So here is PZ's latest FC.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/01/friday_cephalopod_soaring/giantoctopus.jpeg)
And here is one of the cutest (and non-Disney) pet sidekicks in TV history :kiss2:
Meet the squibbon!
(http://www.thefutureiswild.com/img/news/3_1.jpg)
(http://www.thefutureiswild.com/img/news/3_2.jpg)
These pictures don't actually do it justice
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/01/luckyman.jpeg)
Gotta love those squid, and sometimes they will love you back.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/01/mimic_octopus.jpg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/01/sepia_erostrata.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/02/baby_cuttle001.jpeg)
(http://www.sjgames.com/munchkin/toys/chibithulhu/img/cover_lg.jpg)
http://www.sjgames.com/munchkin/toys/chibithulhu/img/cover_lg.jpg
Chibithulhu
That looks like an Ood's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ood#Ood) teddy bear (or squid).
Here's a cute one...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/02/sepiadarium_kochi.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/02/friday_cephalopod_look_up/octopus_cyanea.jpeg)
Where's the baaa-byyy....
Here is a cute (and quite psychedelic) little cuttlefish.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/02/friday_cephalopod_clenched_ten/cuttlefish.jpeg)
Does it wear a ring with precious stones on his/her tentacle?
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/octopus_sp.jpg)
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/03/cuttlefish_hunting.php
The video is kinda cool. If I am not mistaken, this is a flamboyant cuttlefish, the only known poisonous cuttlefish. It also doesn't swim, but walks on its tentacles on the sea bottom. It is pretty small, too. About the size of my little finger, IIRC.
The Japanese voice-over is rather silly, though.
Quote from: Aphos on March 13, 2009, 03:10:23 PM
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/octopus_sp.jpg)
This guy is cute.
He'd make a great stuffed animal.
Actually looks like one.
A new commercial possibility? Plush cuttlefish?
Too late, already done. Google pictures yields more than 4000 on Plush cuttlefish and 38000 for Plush squid.
A squid hatchling
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/euprymna.jpg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/sepia_peterseni.jpg)
Quote from: Aphos on March 27, 2009, 01:57:34 PM
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/03/sepia_peterseni.jpg)
Looks like a little red okra pod.
Hmmmm, squid gumbo?
Would it turn green if we showed it an Okra pod?
Chameleon squidlets?
Hmmmm.
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on March 30, 2009, 03:42:30 AM
Chameleon squidlets?
Hmmmm.
Squid are much better chameleons than chameleons are.
Squid Gumbo it is, then!! With the red and green color theme, maybe for Christmas. :D
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/04/vampyroteuthis_infernalis.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/04/friday_cephalopod_whered_you_g/abralia_veranyi.jpg)
My, what big eyes you have!
I've been a bad boy and haven't posted for quite a while. So here are some of the latest of PZ's Friday Cephalopods...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/06/grimpoteuthis.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/06/friday_cephalopod_its_still_fr/Pinnoctopus.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/06/friday_cephalopod_bestiality/vulcanoctopus_hydrothermalis.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/07/friday_cephalopod_this_is_how/sepia_officinalis.jpeg)
So, that's why you call kissing "sucking face"!?
;D
Yup. Cuttlefish kissy face.
Well, it isn't Friday Cephalopod, but PZ brings us...
Charles Darwin vs. a Giant Squid
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/07/charles_darwin_vs_a_giant_squi/darwin_squid.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/07/friday_cephalopod_the_great_an/sepiadarium_austrinum.jpeg)
Looks like he's taking a nap. 8)
Or perhaps it is a giant brain in a moment of deep contemplation.
Ooh.
Lots of cephalopods today.
(http://www.tonmo.com/science/public/abdopusabaculus.jpg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/07/friday_cephalopod_blackwater_h/octopus-hawaii.jpeg)
And this cool video...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/snogged_by_an_octopus.php
The Fractal Squids?
Squid in Love
g(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/07/friday_cephalopod_an_intimate/sepia.jpeg)
A little interspecies kissy face...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/07/friday_cephalopod_sucking_face/dosidicus_gigas.jpeg)
That diver doen not appear to be particularly amused! :P
I saw something similar I believe in a BBC documentary. The cephalopod was interested in his/her reflection in the diver's mask.
Quote from: Bluenose on August 02, 2009, 11:07:53 AM
That diver doen not appear to be particularly amused! :P
I am not certain, but I think that is a Humboldt squid. The size is about right, and there are a lot of them off California and Baja. They are very aggressive and have a very nasty bite. Plus the tentacles have little claws as well as suckers.
If I recall correctly Humbolds can be very aggressive, specially to the fishermen hunting them. They are fearless in groups and very courious.
Humbolts can be very nasty. Also known by a variety of other names, including Diablo Rojo, or Red Devil. Animals tend not to get this type of moniker undeservedly...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/08/friday_cephalopod_fabulous_fas/octopus_mototi.jpeg)
I swear, this guy looks like he's wearing clown makeup.
It reminds me of a certain brand of icecream (vanilla + strawbery)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/08/friday_cephalopod_where_are_th/octopus_maorum.jpeg)
Is he teaching entanglement? ;)
Oooh! and a cousin left some ink behind:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8208838.stm
Amazing! :)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/08/friday_cephalopod_the_christia/pc-octopus.jpeg)
That a bull squid? ;)
It's Friday (TGIF!!!) and time for another Friday Cephalopod.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/08/friday_cephalopod_survivor_cep/two_cephs.jpeg)
On the left, a fossilized ceratatid ammonoid...one of the sort of squid-with-shell things that are similar to a chambered nautilus.
On the left, a vampire squid.
The article that goes with the picture is interesting, positing why the cephalopods survived the Permian extinction and thrived thereafter.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/08/friday_cephalopod_survivor_cep.php (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/08/friday_cephalopod_survivor_cep.php)
I like the final paragraph...
QuoteIt just goes to show you that our current episode of global warming is a relatively minor event. Life will go on. Fast-living organisms with high metabolic demands like, say, humans, might suffer and die from the environmental consequences of a high CO2 atmosphere, but don't worry — the cephalopods will live on. They might even get a happy surge in numbers from the changes.
Loved this comment:
Quote from: article commentarySo what you are saying is, if the environment gets bad enough Cthulhu will re-awaken?
:squidlings::squidlings::squidlings::squidlings:
It's all just the foreplay for the end times. Bets whether it is engineered by Cthulhu, JHC (resp. his father) or Shiva can be put at www.weareetotallydoomedanyway.orc
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 29, 2009, 09:10:38 AM
It's all just the foreplay for the end times. Bets whether it is engineered by Cthulhu, JHC (resp. his father) or Shiva can be put at www.weareetotallydoomedanyway.orc
Don't forget the Frost Giants. They are trying to bring on Ragnarok.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/09/friday_cephalopod_little_purpl/octopus_micropyrsus.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/09/friday_cephalopod_awww_so_cute/heteroteuthis_hawaiiensis.jpeg)
Ah...a cute lil squidling.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/09/friday_cephalopod_hes_got_frec/abraliopsis.jpeg)
That one looks like a rocket with the sonic bow wave made visible
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/09/friday_cephalopod_how_sad_to_b/granelodone.jpg)
That little guy looks like a helmet! :D
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/10/friday_cephalopod_jewel_of_the/euprymna_tasmanica.jpeg)
Wow! Is he for real? I shall call him Gilda.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/10/friday_cephalopod_death_from_a/sepia_latimanus.jpeg)
Squidling plundering the cookie jar? :mrgreen:
Behold the flying squid!
(http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/3b3w3482acopy1.300a.jpg)
http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/3b3w3482acopy1.300a.jpg
from page
http://tolweb.org/Ommastrephidae/19418
I had to open the page link.
The picture is astounding!
Cephalopods and actually a lot of things hiding in the seas make me think that the Aliens landed here long a go and lives in our oceans... :o :D
Like this pretty beastie :help:
(http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000iHAHr0Hy3Dw/s/650)(http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00008afyoKT35b0/s/650)
http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000iHAHr0Hy3Dw/s/650
http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00008afyoKT35b0/s/650
It's a kind of shrimp/zooplancton/krill? Or it's a tiny jellyfish capturing her meal?
It's called phronima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phronima
I think it uses the creature above as host.
I also think that the photos are masterpieces!
Not as a host, it uses it as a garage, storing eggs in it.
As a pram, by the common name. ;)
I am more for the theory that it is hat fashion gone wild (planning a visit to the seahorse races at Aquascot maybe?)
This picture is a classic...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/10/friday_cephalopod_the_classic/nautilus_pompilius.jpeg)
Indeed
I had a stare-down with one of those guys once- and HE WON!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/10/friday_cephalopod_smug_as_a_cu/cuttlefish.jpeg)
Is that a B movie or a disco squid?
Aw, why the long face, little feller?
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/11/friday_cephalopod_will_you_be/ammonite.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/11/friday_cephalopod_nom_nom_nom/nomnomnom.jpeg)
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...hungry...crab meat for lunch...
:crabbie:
That looks like from a horror movie.
The Terror of the Nautilus?
Mmmm.... crabby!
Quote from: Swatopluk on November 14, 2009, 07:32:09 AM
That looks like from a horror movie.
The Terror of the Nautilus?
PZ had the picture titled...NOM, NOM, NOM.
Here's a cute lil squidling...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/11/friday_cephalopod_squink/squink.jpeg)
Are those eyes? Real-life cartoon - looks Simpsonesque.
...it needs some underwire specs... ;D
I would have taken that for an artist's expression, not a photo. Wow!
I think the lil fellow is still in the egg developing. I don't know it those are eyes or not. They're not quite in the right place, but that often happens during development of an embryo...organs move around.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/12/friday_cephalopod_breeding_swa/loligo_opalescens.jpeg)
This little fellow is from down Bluenose's way...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/12/fabulous_footage.php
IIRC, this is the only poisonous octopus, and one of only a very few poisonous cephalopod species (such as the iridescent cuttlefish). Like many species down by Oz, it is among the most poisonous on Earth.
Anything that pretty's just GOT ta be poisonous!
PZ Myers: "Be still my heart...Isabelli Rossellini dressed up as a squid demonstrating their mating ritual."
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid18011345001?bclid=38107619001&bctid=38116035001
OK. OK. So PZ made a typo on "Isabella". Forgive him.
I forgive him. She's so gorgeous she'd make me misspell, too. (Not that I need any help!) ;)
I did not know that there were sequels to Green Porno
An octopus...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/12/friday_cephalopod_say_hello_to/enteroctopus_dofleini.jpeg)
And an octopus cookie...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/12/thats_some_cookie/cookie.jpeg)
Y'aaaarrggghh- if that aint the purtiest pastry I even seen!
PZ posted some very strange cephalopod art (and some arts and crafts, too) this morning.
http://laughingsquid.com/sixty-foot-ghost-a-giant-squid-art-installation/
http://hilobrow.com/2009/12/11/sugarplum-squeampunk/
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2009/12/keith_noordzy_-.php
http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=RB-TERROR&Category_Code=RB
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/12/future_squid_overlord.php
(http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/qw-octo-big.gif)
The nozzle looks like the bolts of the Frankenstein monster. Frankensquid?
Frankensquid
(http://www.notcot.com/images/2009/12/paperpush2.jpg)
Did anyone see this little fellah (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8408233.stm) racing off with a coconut on last night's news?
That is quite cool. Incredibly is only now that they use coconuts (instead of sea shells) that the behavior is considered tool use. :-\
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on December 16, 2009, 09:21:55 PM
That is quite cool. Incredibly is only now that they use coconuts (instead of sea shells) that the behavior is considered tool use. :-\
Yes, that thought had crossed my mind, too. If an octopus taking shelter in a coconut is tool use, should a hermit crab using a seashell also be considered tool use?
I think a difference is that the hermit crab just takes permanent possession of its shell and will not dispose (temporarily) of it when it has something else to do (except during skin change). The shell is simply home. The octopus on the other hand was observed to store coconut shells for later use. Also the crabs seem not to have to learn the trick. In at least one subspecies it is so built in to use only the shells of a certain species that the disappearence of the latter threatens extinction of the crab. Now artificial copies of these shells are (and have to be) distributed by humans.
The use of (clam)shells for protection by octopuses is btw nothing new as these images from a documentary several decades old show. But in this case it was a female guarding her eggs and therefore staying in one place, not carrying the shell around. Interestingly the shell was collected without knowing that an octopus was in it and the eggs were spotted even later.
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Krake1.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Krake1.jpg
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/krake2.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/krake2.jpg
I still don't think of it quite as tool use. Squirrels collect nuts for future use. If the octopus used the coconut shell to break open something else, that might be tool use.
I just love the way the octo sort of squats in the shell and gallops at the same time. Wonderful motion.
But they collect the coconuts as a shelter not as food and even in that case would put the octopus in the same league as a mammal.
The distinction with the hermits as Swato pointed out is that we are talking of a learned behavior (using an atypical object as shelter and moving it to a selected location) as opposed to an instinctive one (like the crab), more so, manipulating the object to fit a need (using two halves and closing them around) while similar to using the shells of a bivalve implies the realization (abstract thinking) of analogous use. If anything it confirms the status of cephalopods as the smartest invertebrates with an intelligence on the same level as a mammal.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on December 17, 2009, 08:35:22 PM
I still don't think of it quite as tool use. Squirrels collect nuts for future use. If the octopus used the coconut shell to break open something else, that might be tool use.
I just love the way the octo sort of squats in the shell and gallops at the same time. Wonderful motion.
Have you seen a film of an iridescent cuttlefish? They rarely swim. Mostly, they get around by walking on the sea bottom. They walk on their two fins and two of their tentacles. It is a strange, stately walk, slow and dignified...as if to say..."*I* am extremely poisonous. *I* don't need to hurry."
A new picture today.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/12/friday_cephalopod_must_be_the/sepia_sp.jpeg)
My, isn't he a spiffy looking guy?
Merry Xmas!
And, oh yeah, a holiday appropriate cephalopod.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/12/octopus_alpheus.jpeg)
The fly agaric octopus? :mrgreen:
Quote from: Aphos on December 18, 2009, 01:52:38 PM
A new picture today.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2009/12/friday_cephalopod_must_be_the/sepia_sp.jpeg)
My, isn't he a spiffy looking guy?
Sorry I missed this when you first posted it. I really like him. He looks like a surfboard!
I'd call the red and white guy Santalapod!
Quote from: Opsanus tau on December 26, 2009, 03:12:21 PM
Sorry I missed this when you first posted it. I really like him. He looks like a surfboard!
I'd call the red and white guy Santalapod!
Oh, please don't!
DaveL myght shoot thee wee squirmy blaggard in frustrayshun at missin ole Sandy Claws agin...
Aye, yer right, matey.
But eed prbly miss this one, as well... :bees:
Weird. I thought I had posted this. Anyway...
Here is a cute & cuddly octopus for ya...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/01/friday_cephalopod_affectionate.php
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/01/friday_cephalopod_crusty_nauti/allonautilus_scrobiculatus.jpeg)
Behold, Nautilus!
Oh my, I've been delinquent this week.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/01/friday_cephalopod_flowers_or_p/octo_basket.jpeg)
Future sushi, unfortunately.
Also...
Warning: Explicit Sex Video involving Tentacles ahead!
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/01/hot_octopus_action.php
Those look floral
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/01/friday_cephalopod_pretty_in_pi/sepia_latimanus.jpeg)
Hast it just caught a parrot?
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/01/friday_cephalopod/enteroctopus_zealandicus.jpeg)
Itty bitty baby squidling.
Look loik a loit-bulb, innit. Maybe when poirates get a good idea, a toiny glowing squidlking appears over their heads?
Aarrr! But it be hoigher up, where the parrot can't get 'un. ;D
This week's Friday Cephalopod is a video.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/friday_cephalopod_vampyroteuth.php
What an astounding creature.
Ah, the Vampire Squid from Hell. One of my favourite deep sea denizens...
He looks kind of like a moccasin when he turns himself inside-out.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/02/friday_cephalopod_giant_squid/darwin_squid.jpeg)
Poor guy doesn't look too good, but then he IS dead.
There is also a video along with a brief comment.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/friday_cephalopod_giant_squid.php
BTW...that's one BIG squid.
I saw one like that at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History a few years back. They do look terrible, all fleshy and flat like that. I felt sorry for him.
I suspect I ate a chunk of one like him, Last Friday at the Golden Palace. :mrgreen:
If you had been served the whole thing, you'd still be dining.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/02/friday_cephalopod_two-tone/octopus_cyanea.jpeg)
That one obviously got overrun by the machine that paints the white lines in the middle of the highway
QuoteThat one obviously got overrun by the machine that paints the white lines in the middle of the highway
:ROFL:
Pity, really, it's no longer any use for making bagpipes.
He'd be a handsome set of bagpipes, too. What kind is he, Aphos?
Quote from: Opsanus tau on February 21, 2010, 03:53:41 PM
He'd be a handsome set of bagpipes, too. What kind is he, Aphos?
According to PZ...
Octopus cyanea
The Wikipedia article is very short...
Quote
The Big Blue Octopus (Octopus cyanea), also known as the Day Octopus and Cyane's Octopus, is an octopus in the family Octopodidae. It occurs in both the Pacific and Indian Oceans, from Hawaii to the eastern coast of Africa.[1]
O. cyanea grows to 16 cm in mantle length with arms to at least 80 cm.[1]
The type specimen was collected off Australia and is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/02/friday_cephalopod_i_will_gladl/grimpoteuthis.jpeg)
That one is just too adorable. It looks like he's wearing shoes!
Is that the green Peanuts squid? (Charlie Brown and company also have their feet attached directly to the upper body without much of legs)
Looks a lot like Snoopy, indeed. ;D
BTW...just to let you all know, PZ posts "Mary's Monday Metazoans" on...you got it...Mondays. Some more good animal pictures on PZ's blog Pharyngula.
Mary, IIRC, is PZ's "Trophy Wife(tm)".
Hmmm... dunno about that trademark, Garner Andrews has been on about the Trophy Wife for years, and he's far from the first to use the term.
Quote from: Agujjim on March 01, 2010, 12:10:18 AM
Hmmm... dunno about that trademark, Garner Andrews has been on about the Trophy Wife for years, and he's far from the first to use the term.
Well, all I can say is that PZ uses the trademark.
Maybe there is a Trophy Wives R Us somewhere.
There is, I've seen ads for it. ;)
Doesn't go by that name, but there are such dating services. :P
Hey- I'm a Trophy Wife!
(Honorable Mention gets a trophy, right?)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/03/friday_cephalopod_courtin_time/sepioteuthis_sepioidea.jpeg)
Squid in love.
Beware of the Na'vi 'gator!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/03/friday_cephalopod_behold_the_s/enteroctopus_dofleini.jpeg)
:o OMG! If I looked up and saw that floating above me, I'd probably freak.
A mix of awe and fear indeed! An awesome picture.
What's the eerie, sinister creature at the top right? It's got all dangly bits and sticky-outy things at the front.
Time again for Friday Cephalopods.
First off, teach them love of cephalopods while they're young.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/03/friday_cephalopod_getting_them/youngun.jpeg)
And now for this week's cephalopod.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/03/friday_cephalopod_not_as_cute/hapalochlaena.jpeg)
Ooh! Neon polka dots! He must be poisonous.
O good Chief Cephalopodist, I hope you'll be pleased to know that I gave th' Opsalette a glow-in-the-dark octopus toy when she was around 8. It came with it's own set of plastic scuba divers! She loved it.
All the frogmen are gone, now, but the 'pus still lives in our bathroom.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on March 19, 2010, 03:59:56 PM
Ooh! Neon polka dots! He must be poisonous.
Yup. The blue ringed octopus, if I'm not mistaken. Little bugger, only 3 or 4 inches across and VERY poisonous. Lives down in the Great Barrier Reef area. (Jeez there are a lot of really poisonous things down in Oz.)
One of only 3 poisonous cephalopod species I am aware of. The others are a squid species and a cuttlefish species.
Squidlings!
:squid_blue: :squid_green: :squid_pink: :squid_red: :squid_blue: :squid_green: :squid_pink: :squid_red:
It's not Friday, but PZ posted a nice little video of David Attenborough and a nautilus.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/03/david_attenborough_a_nautilus.php
So long as he doesn't post the one with DavidH and the naughty lass. :mrgreen:
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/03/friday_cephalopod_classic_squi/uroteuthis_chinensis.jpeg)
It's an alien spacecraft. A Nargonid Mk4a Battle Cruiser, at a guess.
I guess this would go here...
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/img005_tn.jpg)
Single-eyed? Is that mandatory? (the only one I found on the net is too) :mrgreen: :(
In the loch o' the blind, the one-eyed squid is laird. :mrgreen:
I know it's Sunday, but...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/03/id_use_this_as_my_profile_pic/master_of_seas.jpeg)
Now that's the stuff to feed the troops! :mrgreen:
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on March 27, 2010, 06:31:07 PM
I guess this would go here...
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/img005_tn.jpg)
I think it's great! :)
Perhaps the tentacles should be slightly thicker...
re: one eyed, if one wants to put some air between the squid and the pipe sack (for clearness and definition) I guess the squid has to be in profile.
@Apos: Cheeeeessssyyyy! :D
The Scottish squid is rather oddly dressed. He has his kilt around his mouth and his tam on his butt.
Well, I had to adjust for physiology, where else can I place a kilt? ???
Quote from: Zonowhere else can I place a kilt? ???
Good point. :dontknow:
It's Friday!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/03/friday_cephalopod_breeding_swa/sepia_officinalis.jpeg)
Those look spooky!
At first I thought they looked like zebras, but their pattern is really more like that which one might find on sifting sand dunes. Interesting!
Who did they declare for in the boat race?
Quote from: piecesWho did they declare for in the boat race?
They were probably swimming underneath Cambridge, giving them an unfair advantage. :mrgreen:
My own attempt at a pipe squid.
Not yet close to my vision but you get the general direction.
I think the cuttlefish comes close but the tentacles are still far from perfect, especially the part where they come out of the head.
(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=992.0;attach=857)
I reckon they're pretty good! Keep at it, Swato. ;D
Oops...I'm a little late this week.
First, a momma cuttlefish and her future squidlings (are baby cuttlefish squidlings?).
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/04/friday_cephalopod_momma_sowing/sepia_latimanus.jpeg)
Plus a silly picture.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/04/cephalopod_with_cyberpistols/cyberpistols.jpeg)
And lastly, a video of a vicious vertebrate being mean to a cephalopod.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/04/chordate_cruelty.php#more
Quote from: Aphos on April 10, 2010, 10:38:34 PM
First, a momma cuttlefish and her future squidlings (are baby cuttlefish squidlings?).
No, cuttlets. Especially if breaded and fried. ;)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/04/spock_was_not_a_chordate/trek_squid.jpeg)
Cephalopod Joins Star Fleet
That's wonderful! Is it made out of Sculpey? I love that stuff!
This week we have two videos:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/04/friday_cephalopod_the_octopus.php
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/cutestuff/3590839/Octopus-flees-with-camera
Easy enough to embed... ;D
[youtube=425,350]ww4kNxYE0c4[/youtube]
Ah. Just what the world needs. Octopus pancakes.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/04/i_wish_id_thought_of_this/krakencake.jpeg)
I see they even got the color right...
Hey, it's Friday once again!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/04/friday_cephalopod_in_flagrante/sepia_pharaonis.jpeg)
Oh baybay! Cephalopods in love?
That looks somewhat scifi to me :mrgreen:
Speculation on what an intelligent cephalopod would look like:
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/04/cuttle_w_raygun.jpeg)
(http://www.albinokraken.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dangerous_cuttlefish.gif)(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cuttlefish.png)
http://www.albinokraken.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dangerous_cuttlefish.gif
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cuttlefish.png
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/04/friday_cephalopod_face_to_face/argonauta_nodosa.jpeg)
This little girl is called the Knobby Argonaut (aka Argonauta nodosa). The "shell" is an egg case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonauta_nodosa
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 26, 2010, 08:59:31 AM
(http://www.albinokraken.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dangerous_cuttlefish.gif)
I would say this guy looks like Dick Cheney...except that would be insulting to cuttlefish everywhere...and I really don't want to PO this guy.
Hi Guys! TGIF.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/05/friday_cephalopod_like_a_jewel/sepia_tokioensis.jpeg)
The ability to display colors in squid and cuttlefish never ceases to amaze me.
Ooh! He looks like a horizontal lava lamp!
Squidus lavalampus???
TGICF...Thank Gawd It's Cephalopod Friday.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/05/sydney_harbour.jpeg)
And here's a video of a badass octopus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q36_8s5z6S8&feature=player_embedded
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.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 14, 2010, 08:19:31 PM
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?
The last picture looks more like a drawing than a photography
What sort of squid are those gorgeous little bronze fellahs?
They're the Anglo-French Concorde squids with the droop nose.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 15, 2010, 01:55:34 PM
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.
My first thought was sea arrows, but they seem to have more winglike perambulators (flagellators?) on each side.
Well, it's the Saturday after Friday, and here is the new pic...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/05/friday_cephalopod_also_it_flie/nototodarus.jpeg)
And even the Romans were obsessed with cephalopods...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/05/in_a_previous_life_this_would/herculaneum.jpeg)
Is octopus-man playing baseball?
I'd rather not imagine what he might be doing to that tentalcy thing.
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)
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
Wot? ???
I think he's just a dirty ole blaggard.
As literally earthborn creatures they can be expected to be dirty :mrgreen:
Quote from: Swatopluk on May 23, 2010, 07:49:34 AM
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)
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!"
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)
http://peterswordoftheday.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/aegis.jpg
Quote from: Opsanus tauGood lord, he's got snakes for legs! Maybe Athena there is saying "...and don't come crawling back to me!"
:D
Quote from: Swatopluk on May 23, 2010, 07:49:34 AM
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!
:1stprize:
I still haven't got around to seeing that movie. :mrgreen:
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)
http://www.morgenpost.de/multimedia/archive/00657/krake_DW_Wissenscha_657067b.jpg
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.
he looks like some kind of Pixar Studios character. Petrushka the Prehistoric Squidling?
What would've Stravinsky thought about that reference?
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.
Speaking of squidlings...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/05/friday_cephalopod_didnt_they_g/sepioteuthis.jpeg)
Babies!
---
Quote from: Opsanus tau on May 28, 2010, 09:28:49 PM
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:
QuoteThe 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:
(http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/composers.gif)
As to how much can you extrapolate from that I don't know. :dontknow:
Ha! Off topic, but fascinating, all the same! Ya wanna start that in another discussion?
Dem squidlings look like boids!
What does one call a bunch of squidlings?
A "mob of squidlings" (Oxford version)
A "maul of squidlings" (Cambridge version)
A "boiling of squidlings" (Scottish version)
A "banquet of squidlings" (Japanese version)
:P
Quote from: The Meromorph on May 30, 2010, 04:06:39 AM
A "mob of squidlings" (Oxford version)
A "maul of squidlings" (Cambridge version)
A "boiling of squidlings" (Scottish version)
A "banquet of squidlings" (Japanese version)
:P
I think the first two apply best to the Monastery. :squid_blue: :squid_green: :squid_pink: :squid_red: :squid_yellow:
but I like the last two better - how about a breading, a fry or a simmer? :mrgreen:
The Scottish version would definitely be a "Deep-Fry of Squidlings"
Beware or they will sing Squids wha hae to you in no uncertain terms
http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?topic=395.msg108145#msg108145
(http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/h0/h2339.jpg)
Take a look at the second video for a bit of cuttlefish prawn.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/seduce-me-video-isabella_n_544616.html
(not up to the usual standards though imo)
Another squidling.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/06/friday_cephalopod_see_what_hap/megalocranchia.jpeg)
Made from lapislazuli I presume
(http://www.novasilver.co.uk/acatalog/1185132238lapis2.jpg)
http://www.novasilver.co.uk/acatalog/1185132238lapis2.jpg
Ooh- I love lapis! I have a nice pair of lapis earrings.
You're right, Swato today's squidlikes are lapis-like!
It seems more like a visual effect and the squid is translucent (and dinner inside).
That's the front half of a pig inside. This is a really big specimen. :mrgreen:
Here a nice family portrait for a change
(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=992.0;attach=978)
Ah.
Cthulhu isn't all bad.
OK, but how the */?!* do you fit a nappy on that baby?
Given the excretory set up on a cephalopod, where would it even come out? It might need a colostomy bag instead.
I wish I hadn't started thinking about that ... :mrgreen:
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on June 10, 2010, 08:49:57 AM
OK, but how the */?!* do you fit a nappy on that baby?
The topology is interesting, but not that complicated...at least compared to 6 dimensional manifolds.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/06/pelagic_octopus.jpeg)
Gorgeous! Those tendrils remind me of those holiday lights that are strung in clear plastic tubes.
This one looks truly alien but not necessarily evil.
ooooooooooooh
I can't tell how big it is. I'd call it pretty if it's under 6" but downright scary if over 2 feet. :mrgreen:
This is a male Pelagic Octopus. The males are only about 10 cm (4 in) in length. The females are much larger at about 1 m (3 ft) in length. Here is a female...
(http://gumbolimbo.org/ee/images/Blanket_Octopus-_%285%29_lr.JPG)
OK, the male is pretty and the female is scary. This is what one so often finds in life. :D
Quote from: Rudyard Kipling'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale -
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
;)
Hey- I'd be scary too, if someone was pinching my head like that!
It's Friday once again, and now we have...
Squids Making Woo!!!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/06/friday_cephalopod_cruisin_for/sepioteuthis.jpeg)
I've got to say, this is another of those squid photos that looks more like a drawing than a photo.
These are members of the genus Sepioteuthis. It doesn't say what species. Here is a photo from the Wikipedia article on the genus. I find this photo eerily beautiful.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Squid_komodo.jpg/220px-Squid_komodo.jpg)
Quote from: AphosI find this photo eerily beautiful.
I agree, but it's right scary, too. He looks like his beady eyes are sizing you up. As to the other two - if that's how they reproduce, no wonder they look so weird. :mrgreen:
I think they're supremely beautiful. Are their eyes literally glowing? (Or is it just all that woo? ;) )
This morning th'Opsalette and her friend were watching "Ponyo", and every time an octopus would show up they would shout "OCTOPUS" !
Quote from: Opsanus tau on June 18, 2010, 06:52:56 PM
Are their eyes literally glowing?
I'm not certain, but I think it likely their eyes are somewhat like cat eyes in that they have a reflective layer behind the retina. That is a common adaptation to low light conditions. The light is reflected back through the retina which gives the light sensitive cells a second chance to pick up the image. That is why cat eyes "glow" at night. You are seeing the light reflected back out.
These guys look like they have flashlights in their eye sockets!
But then, so does Laser Kitteh (http://www.lolcats.com/view/9769/).
I know it's not Friday, but PZ posted a cool squid video today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-BkBcbqhA&feature=player_embedded
One has to constantly remind oneself that this is real and not made up.
As Swato says. At one moment you're looking at something like 2001, the next moment you seem to see a weird human-like figure.
I saw that too. He looked like Mr. Salty didn't he.
That's it. There's also another one, earlier, like a head with spiky hair.
Bart Simpson?
Yes, now you mention it. ;D
About as close as you can get to real live aliens living on Planet Earth.
It is Friday once again, that most sacred of days. And you know what that means.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/06/friday_cephalopod_eye_of_the_c/cuttlefish.jpeg)
A close-up of a cuttlefish staring back.
Also, an octopus some Germans claim is a World Cup fan.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/06/octopuses_do_not_have_psychic/psychic_octopus.jpeg)
Oh yeah? Where's his vuvuzela, then?
;D
Somewhere under his mantle, I presume... not every critter hangs its vuvuzela out for the world to see. ;)
The other night on MSNBC I saw three horn players from some German orchestra try to play Mozart on vuvuzelas. Try to imagine how bad it sounded.
It was even worse than that.
It was Brahms and Ravel.
Countdown with Keith Olbermann; June 23th; Oddball
I thought they did surprisingly well. ;)
Ok, being trained as a French Horn player I can give a little insight about the often maligned plastic "instrument". There are three major factors in the sound of it, namely:
1. Length of the instrument
2. Quality of the instrument
3. Ability of the player
If the instrument is short (as in the majority of cases) the fundamental harmonic will be relatively high, as a result making more notes on it will be harder given that the contiguous harmonics are on the 4th octave above the fundamental, to make it harder the "horn" is straight therefore there is no easy way to manipulate the sound with the hand to change pitch (as you would with a natural French Horn, pistons to change notes are a relatively modern invention). Add the fact of shoddy plastic manufacturing (with internal edges) and you not only the sound suffers but tuning becomes harder. To finish, the individuals normally playing it have zero training in brass (the German guys playing -or trying- being the exception). As a result the regular vuvuzela sound is something that goes around it's fundamental with a buzz.
Make it longer, make a coil with it (like a hunting horn) and make sure there are not that many imperfections with it, and something musical can come out of it.
Quote from: Zonothe regular vuvuzela sound is something that goes around it's fundamental with a buzz.
That's a very generous way of putting it!
Apparently they use it in S. Africa to generate drone chords (using different length instruments for each chord) in some popular music.
Anywho, I found the German version in youtube:
[youtube=600,350]tkhJKAkau2A[/youtube]
Those guys are absolutely adorable and even though the vuvuzela is an obnoxious beast, they did rather well with it, all things considered.
Th'Opsalette thought that their version of "Bolero" sounded like it might work for belly dancing.
I have the suspicion that they deliberately did not use their full potential. At least in the Bolero it sounded to me as if it was 'orientalized' on purpose. Please note that the 'beat voice' is more or less flawless.
Not so much o purpose but dependent on the harmonics available in the tube, you can't do a full chromatic scale in an open tube until the 5th/6th octave above the fundamental and it will not be in tune.
I still think it was done more imperfectly than strictly necessary - for the comic effect.
Btw, for those that do not understand German, the speaker claims that they are the official vuvuzela section of the symphony orchestra and that they are playing the pieces the way the composers intended (both Brahms and Ravel being fascinated by the versatility of the vuvuzela).
I'm not saying it's impossible but I can assure you that playing those high harmonics is particularly hard, current instruments manage the length of the tube with valves/pistons and are manufactured with practically micrometric precision. Besides, while I can't blame tuning, the occasional missed notes don't seem intentional at all, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if they did a number of tries and the current one was the best run.
I guess what I'm saying is that those guys are playing beyond the capabilities of the instrument (as opposed to playing badly) for comedic effect .
Yes, they certainly seemed like semi-professional musicians, at least. My German is a little rusty, but I figured they were saying something along those lines, very tongue-in-cheek.
I saw Paul the octopus on the news last night. Apparently he has been predicting world cup winners by choosing one flagged aquarium-with-a-mussel-in-it over another one. What struck my funnybone most was that anyone would name an octopus "Paul".
With whom is he palling around? ;)
If I got it right the guys usually play in the brass section of one of the highly professional Berlin symphony orchestras (we have more than one), i.e. they are full pros.
To play those high harmonics you have to be a very good trumpet player so I don't doubt they are pros, likely exceptional pros.
They are better on the ol' vuvu than I'll ever be. ::)
But I will diligently practice (if only in the office....) 8)
I bet the badgers love those practice sessions.
:badger: :badger: :badger:
:P ;)
Damn y'all are so smart!
Hey- where's our Cephalopod?
Here it is.
I'm only going to post the link to the picture and give you a warning that it is a bit gross. It is a picture of a dead giant squid washed up on the beach.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/07/friday_cephalopod_a_last_vesti/deadsquid.jpeg
Except for a literal handful of pictures, this is all we have of giant squid. Until recently, there wasn't a single picture of a live specimen.
Thanks for being sensitive towards the squeemishness of your fellow siblings, Aphos.
I believe I've seen this one, so I'll pass. As I recall, it was quite tragic.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on July 02, 2010, 10:50:16 PM
Thanks for being sensitive towards the squeemishness of your fellow siblings, Aphos.
I believe I've seen this one, so I'll pass. As I recall, it was quite tragic.
Might be a different one. I have seen several pictures of giant squid washed up on the beach, but have never seen this one before.
Damn it! Too late to make giant calamari. >:(
What're we gonna do with all this rice?!
Giant calamars are inedible (at least for humans), unless you can regularly drink pure ammonia without any negative side effects.
Can't you rinse the ammonia out or something?
Sperm whales sure seem to have a taste for them, though.
Ammonia doesn't bother me near as bad as liquid nitrogen...
Divers get very bothered by nitrogen bubbles...
That's probably when the octosquids get them. :mrgreen:
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48263000/jpg/_48263393_erectpenis.jpg)
Super Squid Sex Organ Discovered (http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8792000/8792008.stm)
Octopus Paul successfully defended his reputation as a sports prophet by predicting the Spanish victory at the football worldcup.
The question whether to root for my country or the cephalopod was of course easily answered. All hail the prophet!
Aggie, that is one well endowed squid.
(Particularly considering that most squid species don't even HAVE a penis.)
I shudder to think of what hentai artists will make of this one... :o
Nothing they haven't done already... ::)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/07/friday_cephalopod_lovely/squid-thumb-400x415-52744.jpeg)
What a beauty... looks like a sea-parrot.
That's updside down :o
I tried rotating him clockwise 90o and he looks much better. Also try 180o.
But he's a fine fellow, all right.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/07/friday_cephalopod_like_a_big_s/octopus_blanket.jpeg)
I don't know why but somehow this looks to me like a speaker (from antiquity) or actor doing grand gestures and wearing the purple coat/cloak
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/07/friday_cephalopod_rhapsody_in/dumbo.jpeg)
Aah, cute! He's only a liddle diddle baby octopuddy! Psst, bos'n, hand me the harpoon.
Is that a "Dumbo" octopus? It's adorable.
Poor Cthulhu
Have you lost your head?
....
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/07/squee.jpeg)
Okay, in unison, folks: "Awwwwwwwwwwwwww....!"
Do they clamp onto your fingers while you're swimming? Do they suck blood? I bet they grow into great orrible things about 100 yards long. :help: :scared: :mua:
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on July 30, 2010, 07:16:17 PM
Do they clamp onto your fingers while you're swimming? Do they suck blood? I bet they grow into great orrible things about 100 yards long. :help: :scared: :mua:
Clearly that octopus has his human foe bested. The human is wrapped within its tentacles, its beak pressed to human flesh. The human is doomed.
:cthulhu:
Cute. Terrible...but cute :mrgreen:
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/08/awesome_wheels/honda_del_squid.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/08/friday_cephalopod_i_dont_think/benthoctopus_sp.jpeg)
Oh, there's my rubber squiddie!
It looks quite voluptuous.
This isn't a Friday Cephalopod, and it is rather silly. But still...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/08/this_photo_is_completely_inacc/dishwashing_octo.jpeg)
Brilliant :ROFL:
What's it standing on?
How does he get his tentacles to form fingers? How come he's wearing gloves? Is he afraid he'll get wet?
I shouldn't ask so many questions. I won't knock him. I'd gladly have him over to do my dishes. He looks very thorough.
I think the surfactants used would be very, very bad for the cephalopod's skin.
Problem is, the additives used in plastics etc. are potentially lethal too, so the choice of gloves would be crucial.
Back to Friday Cephalopods...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/08/friday_cephalopod_jewel_of_the/histioteuthis_bonellii.jpg)
This one doesn't appear to be gainfully employed.
I hope he's not living the good life shiftlessly off of unemployment insurance welfare...
That one looks like a spaceship in a hippy era movie
I don't know what it is, but I saw one in a sex shop the other day.
He looks like a medieval knight to me. Not that you wouldn't see a medieval knight in a whoopie shop.
I see what you mean - the helmet crest and the mail armour.
Mind you, he'd have a hard time on a horse.
Oh dear, the cephalopod is late today. Whadlwedo? Whadlwedo? Whadlwedo?
Hey...give me a chance, willya?
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/08/sepia.jpeg)
TAG!!! You're IT!
Happy 120 fuzzies and 3900 posts, Aphos!
Sorry I was impatient. These were worth any wait, though. Fabulous critters. They should paint cars that look like these guys.
They are dancing to disco music obviously
Yes, I do believe your right, Professor. The one on the right is clearly pulling a John Travolta move.
I have other thoughts, darker and more sinister. And yet it would be wrong of me to allude to priests and altar-boys, so I won't. :mrgreen:
Simple skirt-chasing would do.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/08/macrotritopus_hopcroft.jpeg)
Itsy bitsy critter.
Are those mammoth or sabre tooth tentacles?
Or a living* grappling hood?
*actually it looks rather ghostly
Aw, wook at his widdle innards, all visible in there.
A little tiny octopus...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/09/o_chierchiae.jpeg)
followed by some more squid weirdness...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/09/dream_girls/BoF.jpeg)
Like a leopard preparing for the jump
Which one? ;)
The second is obviously Elsa Lanchester on the set of Bride of Tentaclestein.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/09/friday_cephalopod_for_monty/sepioteuthis_sepioidea.jpeg)
Looks like the left one tries to cheer up the depressed right one.
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 12, 2010, 08:30:20 AM
Looks like the left one tries to cheer up the depressed right one.
Maybe they're reviewing movies...one tentacles up and one tentacles down.
Quote from: Aphos on September 12, 2010, 03:32:03 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 12, 2010, 08:30:20 AM
Looks like the left one tries to cheer up the depressed right one.
Maybe they're reviewing movies...one tentacles up and one tentacles down.
:ROFL:
I thought they were doing the ice cream and cake dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IisEgkIDHXk&feature=related).
Speaking of cake...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/09/whats_the_occasion/octo_cake.jpeg)
This is a cake.
Wow, it's so realistic it's beautiful. Octopi and squid are some of my favorite animals, oh, and sea turtles are fun to watch too. Gotta love 'em! :)
Hey Sheila! Howzit going?
I don't think I could ever cut that cake!
Hi Sheila! :)
Opsa: I don't think I could cut it either.
Quote from: Aphos on September 17, 2010, 02:55:27 AM
Speaking of cake...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/09/whats_the_occasion/octo_cake.jpeg)
This is a cake.
Hmmm.... why am I reminded of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg)
Or, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A62ek3yzTKg&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A62ek3yzTKg&NR=1)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A62ek3yzTKg&NR=1[/youtube]
<hmmm... won't embed... oh well>
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/09/friday_cephalopod_wheres_its_f/sepia_officinalis.jpeg)
Is that two specimens kissing?
Whoa - is that a Green Squid?
(http://www.mysticgiftsandcharms.co.uk/images/products/sc6.jpg)
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 19, 2010, 08:36:14 AM
Is that two specimens kissing?
I'm not positive, but I think you are looking straight down the tentacles, with the beak in the middle (rather small) and the eyes on either side.
Wow, that's amazing.
Reminds me of Louis Wain's stage 4 psychotic kitty drawing (http://www.cerebromente.org.br/gallery/gall_leonardo/fig1-a.htm).
I think it looks like one squid + its reflection in the aquarium glass.
The pendant I guess is Dionysus, or some thing/one related to that type of deity.
Am I boring now? :-[
The Green Man, you're in the ballpark with Dionysus.
Sorry, a little late this week.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/09/vampcirrids-thumb-450x501-56173.jpg)
Vampyroteuthis infernalis
Plus a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3CJIKKSUpg&feature=player_embedded
In this picture it looks more like an alien from an old movie.
Spooooooky! Is that it's mouth down there at the bottom?
Quote from: Opsanus tau on September 26, 2010, 10:36:17 PM
Spooooooky! Is that it's mouth down there at the bottom?
Yes. You can see the beak in the middle. The tentacles appear to be folded back around the body. Vampyroteuthis also has webbing between the tentacles. Unusual for squid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampyroteuthis
Byeh! I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on September 28, 2010, 10:05:37 PM
Byeh! I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley.
Well, he IS the vampire squid.
It's Friday. Maybe this week's cephalopod can be used to open this thing:
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/octopus.jpg)
:ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/09/grimpoteuthis.jpeg)
Maybe.
That is clearly the offspring of a unholy union of a cephalopod with an albino sperm whale.
I call you Moby Squid.
I like its mouse ears. ::)
A magnificent animal.
This week, itty bitty (very itty bitty) squidlings...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/10/friday_cephalopod_oh_for_cute/loligo.jpeg)
There's virtually no depth of field, which means this is an extreme close up and those guys are really small.
Living pin board pins :mrgreen:
Quote from: Aphos on October 08, 2010, 11:34:47 PM
This week, itty bitty (very itty bitty) squidlings...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/10/friday_cephalopod_oh_for_cute/loligo.jpeg)
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.
The one on the left - Albert, I think his name is - has got brown spots. Is this bad?
Maybe he's just burnt out.
As long as he hasn't caught something off our squidlings. ;D
Sorry...a bit late this week. Here it is...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/10/friday_cephalopod_watch_out_i/humboldt.jpeg)
Yes folks, it's Extrude-a-Squid! Now available in handsome autumn auburn...
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...
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... :o :P
"Aw gee, Mister- he was just playing with yuh! He didn't mean to tear yuh limb from limb!"
It's a mutant seal.
Quote from: The Meromorph on October 17, 2010, 03:00:45 PM
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... :o :P
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).
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 18, 2010, 08:14:45 AM
Quote from: The Meromorph on October 17, 2010, 03:00:45 PM
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... :o :P
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.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/10/fridaybivalve_its_a_mollusc_an/limidae.jpeg)
Somehow I hear dancing music when looking at that picture
I see a flower.
Or a very randy cockle ;)
It's not Friday, but this is a bit of squid silliness...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/10/im_going_to_grow_my_hair_long/hairdo.jpeg)
I love it! :-*
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 23, 2010, 09:37:30 AM
Or a very randy cockle ;)
As in
cockles and mussles alive, alive-OOOH! ;)
Great ponytail barette! I could wear something like that to work. :)
very original!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/10/friday_cephalopod_its_lunchtim/nautilus.jpeg)
Yum. Crab for lunch.
This looks almost out of water and on the picnic table instead.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Oktopus-Orakel_Paul_mit_Schuh.JPG/450px-Oktopus-Orakel_Paul_mit_Schuh.JPG)
:tlite: :candle: :tlite: :candle: :tlite: :candle: :tlite: :candle:
He looks a bit like a slug with wings in that picture.
Piety keeps me from pointing out some othe possible associations ;)
For Halloween...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/10/punkins.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/10/happy_halloween_3/cepholantern.jpeg)
Cephalopod Jack-O-Lanterns.
Some carving talent there!
I know Halloween is behind us, but still...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/10/no_not_the_cute/hikari.jpeg)
And being a mathematician and pun fan...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/11/finally_a_use_for_that_bad_plu/OCTOPI.jpeg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYdjTrRPPAI
Those squid-o-lanterns are amazing, and that film trailer is hilarious!
Fortunately the whole film is available on region 2 DVD (I used it for the movie quiz once, remember?).
Who would have known/thought that the true goal of Zen Buddhism is to become a marvelous piece of sea food?
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/11/friday_cephalopod_is_my_makeup/cuttlefisheye.jpeg)
This week, a close up of a cuttlefish eye.
High on some controlled substance I presume
If you look closely you'll see it's a hyperspace torpedo emerging from the forward port tube of a series XXVII cruiser in the Whoople Spaceforce.
Quote from: Aphos on November 06, 2010, 04:44:44 AM
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/11/friday_cephalopod_is_my_makeup/cuttlefisheye.jpeg)
This week, a close up of a cuttlefish eye.
I wish that cuttlefish would wipe that smug grin off it's eye!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/11/friday_cephalopod_mexico_has_c/cozumel.jpeg)
What is it?
It's, it's...it's GREEN.
(Can anyone tell me where those lines are from?)
Star drek? (I didn't know, but I googled it.)
I think, also, one of the second Blackadder series.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on November 13, 2010, 03:59:56 PM
Star drek? (I didn't know, but I googled it.)
I think, also, one of the second Blackadder series.
Yup, original Star Trek. Scotty, who is drinking a alien under the table.
here's knitting to madness :mrgreen:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/cthulhuchick
^ Cute!
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Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkZFuKHXa7w) is the Blackadder 'green' sketch I mentioned.
Pardon my off topic, but Blackadder II is certainly among the finest comedy seasons ever produced on television. There, I've said it. Now, how to link it with cephalopods?
In this script (http://www.suslik.org/Humour/FilmOrTV/BlackAdder/ba3-2.html) we find the following lines:
B: And this is mine (takes a small piece of paper from the front of his
trousers). My magnificent octopus
E: (takes it) This is your novel, Baldrick? (unfolds it)
B: Yeah -- I can't stand long books.
E: (reads) "Once upon a time, there was a lovely little sausage
called `Baldrick', and it lived happily ever after."
It's Blackadder III, not II, but never mind.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/11/Vitreledonella_richardi.jpeg)
Looks Christmasy.
Also like a comet
It appears to have swallowed a poodle. I hope the dog just fell in water; I'd hate to think the squid slithered up a beach and grabbed it. ;D
Maybe it was one of those Portuguese Water Dogs.
If so, the squid is even bigger than I thought!
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Here's a fine specimen of a robot octopus or octroid.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Mercury_Rectifier.JPG/450px-Mercury_Rectifier.JPG)
Pedants will object that it's only a pentapus.
Cool! What's it for?
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on November 24, 2010, 05:53:46 PM
If so, the squid is even bigger than I thought!
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Here's a fine specimen of a robot octopus or octroid.
Pedants will object that it's only a pentapus.
Actually a hexapus (even more pedantic)
Like the one in the Harryhausen movie
Yes, I was wondering whether there is a sixth whizzgit round the back where we can't see it. But I must be true to my fundamental beliefs: I accept only those whizzgits I can actually see, and take none on faith. :mrgreen:
We're now about to get into an argument about reflections.
As for what it's for - dunno. Maybe some form of rectifier?
According to the image description it is one. And you can see the top of the sixth arm through the glass. It can't be a reflection since it points into the opposite direction.
The 6th whizzgit is an illusion. The FSM planted the image of it there to test our faith. And he can twist the reflection.
...and he's tasty on Fridays. Top that, sun worshippers!
Sorry I'm late this week...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/11/friday_cephalopod_this_is_a_ce/humboldt.jpeg)
Looks to me as if they were molded from neon lights, but these are our friends the Humboldts again.
And Winter wear for the well dressed cephalopodist...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/11/scientists_with_style/PZ_hat.jpg)
And for the young well-dressed cephalopodist...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/11/this_is_not_a_cephalopod_part/octogirl.jpeg)
(This is just too cute for words...)
This is not a cephalopod, despite some publications claiming it is. It is a deep sea worm that was recently discovered. Still, COOL.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/11/this_is_not_a_cephalopod/squidworm.jpeg)
I like those fashion statements, specially the Cthulu skymask. :D
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The Humboldts look positively stunning.
Where do they get that psychedelic lighting?
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/12/friday_cephalopod_the_better_t/arms.jpeg)
This is a tentacle of a colossal squid. It has claws rather than suction cups and those claws can be up to 3 inches (75 mm) long.
Anyone for a tender embrace?
The Squiddy Maiden aka Calmar Dolorosa
That's what you should imagine every time you shake hands with a lawyer. :mrgreen:
Are those claws ... retractable? :o
Quote from: pieces o nine on December 04, 2010, 04:17:41 PM
Are those claws ... retractable? :o
Are they related to catfish ;)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/12/magnapinna_atlantica_deep_sea/magnapinna.jpeg)
Reminds me of.....
never mind, this thread makes me hungry sometimes.
A sewing squid?
Edit: also, wanna cake?
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/TQJMrSS7gXI/AAAAAAAAPWk/B2bw22n4LH0/s400/melody%2Bb.lw.undersea%2Bgingerbread%2Bhouse%2Boctopus.jpg)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/TQJMrSS7gXI/AAAAAAAAPWk/B2bw22n4LH0/s400/melody%2Bb.lw.undersea%2Bgingerbread%2Bhouse%2Boctopus.jpg
That cephalopod has a big hairdo.
Great cake, Batman!
Has anyone seen the Jameson whisky ads featuring the giant octopus? (http://www.wikio.com/video/jameson-irish-whiskey-commercial-1805874)
Thanks, Opsa, I don't think they're playing it over here.
Rather well done, I thought.
Excellent. I wonder if you transatlantics have seen our Compare the Meerkat ads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ust9YBlEfY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ust9YBlEfY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xiC9GNNODE&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xiC9GNNODE&NR=1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSIKy3-mnLk&NR=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSIKy3-mnLk&NR=1)
Ah. Swato beat me to the cake.
What? None left for us?
DH- I had not seen the meercat ads. They're very cute!
Our Geico gekko ads won't admit to what his accent is.
What accent has been foisted upon the meerkats?
Russian, apparently. ???
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/12/friday_cephalopod_this_might_b/piglet.jpeg)
That's not a cephalopod. That's an underwater albino reindeer or roe
If only I could get my eyelashes to curl like that.
It's ogling at its boyfriend.
(http://www.cephalopodmas.com/images/cephalopodmasbanner.jpg)
Cephalopodmas is today, Dec 22.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/12/illex.jpeg)
Space squid?
Quote from: Aphos on December 22, 2010, 06:38:37 PM
(http://www.cephalopodmas.com/images/cephalopodmasbanner.jpg)
Cephalopodmas is today, Dec 22.
Oh dear! I missed it. A belated Cephalopodmas to you then, dear Aphos!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2010/12/friday_cephalopod_may_you_all/bigfin.jpeg)
A fashion-model among cephalopods!
Now, that squidling knows how to dress for New Year' Eve!
Lookin' glam, grrl!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/01/friday_cephalopod_cute_widdle/babysquid.jpeg)
Looks like it's made out of blown glass...
Isn't he cunning. He'd got a little bubble over his head like he can't quite force out a thought. Or maybe it's just a lil' squidling toot.
I feel challenged to try to recreate that with polymer clay!
To me it looks like parachuting
You wouldn't realise from that picture that it's 19 metres long and swallows whales whole.
Ah, just what the monastery needs...cephalopod-themed furniture.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/01/what_every_cephalord_needs/octothrone.jpeg)
Cuttlefish video...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/01/cuttlefish.php
Looks like the octopus bishop (wearing his mitre) just slipped out of his sella curulis
Girl Genius v. Giant Squid
(http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/info/donate/donation_views/giantsquid.jpg)
Larval squidling...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/01/friday_cephalopod_theyre_so_ad/squidlarva.jpeg)
Is that the ghost of squidlings past?
If it's larval, is it not Squidlings Yet to Come? :squid_blue:
Judging by the silly hat, I'd guess it's a Greek Orthodox squidling. ;D
Looks like a happy baby pirate skull with a curly beard.
Oozums a widdle pie-pie boo-boo?
Have we designed a pirate flag for our outfit yet?
That pale one could be the basis.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/01/glass_squid.jpeg)
Over here it's Saturday already.
This one looks like a certain type of beetle looking out of a tulip-like flower under UV light
He reminds me of one of those Obie squish toys (http://www.atomicmall.com/view.php?id=1222423&mba=0).
I don't think it would be a good idea to squish this little fellow. He's cute!
Where do you find so many beautiful cephalopod photos?
Hi, Sheila, nice to see you again!
He has a camera with a very long waterproof lens. ;D
Welcome back, Sheila!
I believe Aphos subscribes to a squid-oriented website and shares the shots with us, here.
I like Swato's idea of making a squidling Jolly Roger out of the previous photo.
Quote from: Sheila on January 23, 2011, 08:44:07 AM
Where do you find so many beautiful cephalopod photos?
'Allo Sheila.
PZ Myers writes the blog Pharyngula and posts "Friday Cephalopds" with pictures the Pharyngulites send him.
Seeing how squidlings are an important part of Toadfish lore, I started passing the pictures along to my siblings.
(http://www.artslant.com/work/image10/307607/d14s2l/silentpartnerem2.jpg)
Ray Caesar - Silent Partner
TOADILY AWESOME!!! Where'd you find her?
Some photo slideshow in a newspaper site, then searched the image.
Is it an art installation? Love the fish bones in the sand.
Just a painting, I think. Slideshow here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/ray-caesars-dark-visions/article1886450/
Not related to the thread, but have you seen any of Mark Ryden's stuff? I have taken quite a liking to this one, titled Nurse Sue (painted on wood):
(http://honeyroasted.ca/buzz/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Nurse_Sue.jpg)
The best known piece of cepahlopods in art is likely Hokusai's Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.
But that is NSFW, so I won't post it (again)
That's an entirely different interpretation of a woman with tentacles under her skirt. :inky:
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/01/friday_cephalopod_bedroom_eyes/sepia_bandensis.jpeg)
The head of this one looks like one of the ancestors of today's elephants (that still had 4 tusks).
But someone split the trunk :mrgreen:
I'm sure it's got a touch of chicken in it somewhere.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/02/friday_cephalopod_vividly_moll/octopus_larva.jpeg)
Did somebody cut the tentacles off?
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 05, 2011, 08:04:03 AM
Did somebody cut the tentacles off?
Larval squidling...with larval tentacles.
Aw, cute widdle warval squidwing... is that his brain in the upper bulb? It looks somewhat like a turtle.
It's the "Punisher" Squidling!!!
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EDIT: removed the disallowed hotlink!
Quote from: Opsa
is that his brain in the upper bulb?
I reckon it's his dinner. ;D
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/02/friday_cephalopod_abdopus_in_l/aculeatus.jpeg)
For more octopus love...
http://www.tonmo.com/content.php?163-Mating-Octopus-%28Abdopus-aculeatus%29
Awww...Just in time for Valentines Day!
They certainly make a more elegant shape than we humans do, don't they?
An H-R Giger fractal made from seashells?
Valentine's Day Video: Cuttlefish :heartbeat:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/02/valentines_day_video_cuttlefis.php
Well, PZ doesn't seem to have posted a cephalopod this Friday, so here is a little something from me...
(http://www.offthemarkcartoons.com/cartoons/1998-09-14.gif)
This species has been spotted in Berlin
Well, I'm a day late and a dollar short, but here it is...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/02/friday_cephalopod_head_on/nautilus.jpeg)
Squid prawn or a charging legless zebra hippo?
That poor nautilus was caught in a compromising angle.
He looks like that guy in "Alien" with the ovipositor on his face. Is it a nautilus floating upside-down with his footie flapping free?
Quote from: Opsa on February 28, 2011, 08:35:18 PM
He looks like that guy in "Alien" with the ovipositor on his face. Is it a nautilus floating upside-down with his footie flapping free?
No, he's right-side-up with his water jet pointed at you.
Lots and lots of squidlings...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/friday_cephalopod_mollusc_cavi/babyoctopus.jpeg)
...with freckles too!
Oops.
Just noticed. Those are baby octopi, not baby squid.
I found this in an old weekly.
Please excuse the low quality scan.
(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=992.0;attach=1307)
PZ also posts "Mary's Monday Metazoan". Mary is PZ's wife. "Metazoan" means multi-celled animal.
This isn't a cephalopod, but it is so danged purty...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/marys_monday_metazoan_its_gran/featherduster.jpeg)
BTW, Swato...cute lil guy. Such tiny tentacles and great big eyes.
Looks like it's wearing a tuban with a ruby
Perhaps it is his third eye? ;)
Or the ruby for its laser beam emitter
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/friday_cephalopod_wheres_his_b/cuttlefish.jpeg)
If it weren't for the sea floor I would've thought that it was a drawing. Incredible colors.
Looks like it is listening to music and conducting the orchestra
This one's like an undersea constellation! So pretty!
Quote from: Opsa on March 12, 2011, 02:15:56 PM
This one's like an undersea constellation! So pretty!
Indeed. It wears the Mantle of Hubble :mrgreen:
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/ah_so_thats_what_the_happy_fun/tentacleball.jpeg)
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/ah_so_thats_what_the_happy_fun/tentacleball.jpeg
Is that a live octopus? :o
looks.... tasty
Quote from: Aggie on March 14, 2011, 05:43:54 PM
Is that a live octopus? :o
looks.... tasty
Several octopi, I think.
I got the impression from the caption that this is several octopi doing the nasty.
I was only off by a single letter, then. ;)
Reminds me of something you'd see in an Asian snack shop.
That reminds me of some boxes M.C.Escher produced on the side (he worked mainly in 2D but did some occasional craftswork)
Wow, this last week went by fast.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/nautilus.jpeg)
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/nautilus.jpeg
Edit: it is useful to have all links additionally in a tag-free form since some have display problems on their machines
I took that for a bird at first sight :mrgreen:
A scary bird with a helmet and a beak full of worms! :o
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/friday_cephalopod_the_cold_sta/paraledone.jpeg)
Ghost Squid!
This is not about cephalopods, it's about Lovecraft. But I figure Swato at least will appreciate it.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/11/16/children-draw-h-p-lovecraft-cthulhu/
Quote from: Aphos on March 26, 2011, 04:39:26 PM
This is not about cephalopods, it's about Lovecraft. But I figure Swato at least will appreciate it.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/11/16/children-draw-h-p-lovecraft-cthulhu/
Indeed I do.
Some of those would not look out of place in a Modern Art gallery.
That one by Pete, aged 13, is fabulous...
A picture of PZ in his inner sanctum, sitting upon his cephalopod throne...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/throne.jpeg)
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/03/throne.jpeg
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/cuttlefish_reflected.jpeg)
Wow, we gotta get you one of those thrones, Aphos! ...and a cuttle fish to cuttle with.
Could this be PZ's secret identity?...
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BfMer9fh2nA/SVl5_UXON3I/AAAAAAAAAGg/J2Dc4hIoakE/S660/DigCuttlefishbanner1.jpg)
Cool! I wonder if the artist used cuttlefish ink to draw it.
This reminds me that my squidly sonnets are a bit short on squids until now.
Quote from: Opsa on April 02, 2011, 04:05:25 PM
Cool! I wonder if the artist used cuttlefish ink to draw it.
Nah, ink from cuttle fish or squid is sepia coloured =dark brown (like peat brown but a colder hue).
A very useful colour in the watercolour box :)
Do you think that background color could be a watered down version of it?
I'd like to walk into a shoe store and ask, "Does this come in cuttlefish ink?"
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/04/friday_cephalopod_the_better_t/squideye.jpeg)
I'm not sure. I think this is an eye form a giant squid. Possibly a colossal squid.
From Mary's Monday Metazoans...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/04/marys_monday_metazoan_my_kind/anemone.jpeg)
It's some kind of anemone, not a cephalopod, but it sure is pretty.
*VERY* cool!
ps: I have an urge to photoshop little duck beaks onto all those waving tentacular frondy extrusions. :)
It looks totally painted, not photographed.
Quote from: Opsa on April 05, 2011, 10:20:33 PM
Do you think that background colour could be a watered down version of it?
I'd like to walk into a shoe store and ask, "Does this come in cuttlefish ink?"
Could be... think of the colour really old photos have, before black and white was black and white, it was Sepia and White.
When I use brown colours when painting I mostly use earth tones like raw and burnt sienna or umber sepia is hard to find but it is a very nice colour.
I think we had this lil guy already in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer disguise
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs30/f/2009/238/7/0/Piglet_Squid_MP_by_Lingra.jpg)
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs30/f/2009/238/7/0/Piglet_Squid_MP_by_Lingra.jpg
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/04/fr/bobtail.jpeg)
This little guy looks like a piece of jewelry to me.
Looks like halo-halo (or some kind of bean and jelly desert) to me, with some crushed peanuts on top. ;D
Looking into that eye, it is up to something.
Is it the Grand Vezir of the Moghul squids?
He looks like cellophane noodles that have been sprinkled with that dried pepper stuff they serve in pizzarias.
Or maybe I'm hungry...
Unfortunately, this thread often makes me hungry. I'm not sure if 'the cuter they are, the better they taste' applies for cephalopods (good rule of thumb for herbivorous mammals - moose are the exception to the rule; it's the opposite for fish).
I do appreciate these beautiful, intelligent animals for what they are while alive.... but they are beautiful, intelligent and tasty.
I would be careful if I were you, pretty frequently means poisonous.
S'ok, I already ate this:
(http://blog.hotelclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/fugu1.jpg)
It were delicious. :mrgreen:
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 18, 2011, 02:29:19 AM
I would be careful if I were you, pretty frequently means poisonous.
I believe the only poisonous cephalopods are the Blue Ringed Octopus and the Flamboyant Cuttlefish.
And for today's cepalopod, this hungry little guy...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/04/friday_cephalopod_live_from_io/nautilus.jpeg)
He looks familiar. Have we seen him before?
Quote from: Opsa on April 22, 2011, 11:16:25 PM
He looks familiar. Have we seen him before?
Could be. I was kinda thinking that myself.
I think PZ's been real busy the last couple of weeks. He was in Hawaii, then Australia and now Iowa. Lots of meetings.
Ah, caught in flagrante delicto committing molluscation!
Speaking of "caught in flagrante delicto", two cuttlefish caught making woo...
(http://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/wa1.jpg?w=500&h=333)
From Why Evolution Is True.
For a moment I thought those were pikes.
Now I am more inclined to say that those in the background are zombies
There is an outworldly air in the picture. It makes me wonder what would they say if we could communicate with them.
I know it's Monday, but PZ posted this.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/04/order_soon/wootshirt.jpeg)
NOICE!!!
Who's the artist?
King (octo)-Kong in Rapture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture_%28BioShock%29)?
(http://metavideogame.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/bioshock_1.jpg)
http://metavideogame.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/bioshock_1.jpg
Quote from: Opsa on April 25, 2011, 10:36:37 PM
NOICE!!!
Who's the artist?
It's a t-shirt design from shirt.woot! They do specialty Ts and only sell the design for one day, so you're out of luck if you wanted one. Sorry.
They do post who the artist is, but only for the present day...at least as far as I could find.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/04/friday_cephalopod_dressed_up_f/whiteocto.jpeg)
I think this is a Dumbo Octopus, but I'm not certain. I just do this for fun. I am not a cephalopod expert by any means.
Nice video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxBVZhZZwI
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/05/its_like_a_happy_scene_from_my/bathtime.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/05/gluttons_for_punishment/eight_reasons.jpeg)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/05/gentleman_squid.jpeg)
Professor Squidrath?
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 26, 2011, 02:51:45 PM
King (octo)-Kong in Rapture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture_%28BioShock%29)?
http://metavideogame.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/bioshock_1.jpg
I >>thought<< I recognized that image...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/04/friday_cephalopod_psychedelic/mimic.jpeg)
Squidlome doing the Dance of the Seven Veils?
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/05/Dosidicus_gigas.jpeg)
carcharosquid swimming through the exhaust of a flatulent mercaptopus
Wow, that white octopus looks like her own galaxy! The red squid seems to be having way too much fun.
Not a cephalopod, admittedly
[youtube=425,350]koPu1PYVHDE[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPu1PYVHDE
This site...
(http://www.petshopboxstudio.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/extraordinary_octopus.jpg)
http://www.petshopboxstudio.com/blog/2011/05/extraordinary-octopus-illustrations/
...has some cool octopus illustration, a few of which I have posted before.
Explore the site. There are a lot more illustrations, by a variety of artists, than just these.
WARNING: Some are NSFW
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/05/squid_embryo-thumb-500x400-65119.jpeg)
What the psyschedelic f... is that?
Quote from: Swatopluk on May 21, 2011, 08:35:21 AM
What the psyschedelic f... is that?
It's an embryonic squid. I suspect the sphere on the left is the yolk sac. I also think it was filmed under a black light.
Purty, ain't it?
Or it just might be a starship from Tau Ceti 4.
I was thinking more of a sprite from an old video game or the tourist industry version of an ancient native idol :mrgreen:
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/05/purple_tentacles.jpeg)
A Corman or Bava octopus?
Quote from: Swatopluk on May 21, 2011, 10:03:43 AM
I was thinking more of a sprite from an old video game or the tourist industry version of an ancient native idol :mrgreen:
Quote from: Aphos on May 20, 2011, 09:36:17 PM
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/05/squid_embryo-thumb-500x400-65119.jpeg)
That, carved in stone, at the entrance of a Monastery, dol hareubang style:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dol_Hareubang_at_Tamna_Mokseokwon.jpg/220px-Dol_Hareubang_at_Tamna_Mokseokwon.jpg)
That stone idol is not fully safe for work, I fear :mrgreen:
Compared to some at the museum in Seoul (the National Palace Museum, IIRC), it's very tame. There are some explicit pieces of much-larger-than-life stone prawn there (well, one or more are clams instead of prawns, if you get my drift).
Delta Veneris?
I can't concisely describe the depiction without blushing, but more of a posterior view and much more detailed. The phallic carvings are less explicit.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/06/friday_cephalopod_the_master_i/impersonator.jpeg)
Where's the cephalopod?
Under the Wolpersquid?
He looks like an omelet with antennae!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/06/friday_cephalopod_hardcore_xxx/mating.jpeg)
Personally, I wouldn't have a clue what today's picture is, but I'm told by reliable sources (that's PZ) that some serious cephalopod hanky panky is going on.
Squid on a stick with cotton candy
The FCC will be here any second... :o
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/06/friday_cephalopod_the_cuttlefi/angrycuttle.jpeg)
This is what a POed cuttlefish looks like.
Well, that looks primarily NSFW :o :o ;)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/06/friday_cephalopod_babys_got_be/babysquid.jpeg)
Fossilized or a sculpture from R'lyeh?
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 25, 2011, 07:28:34 AM
Fossilized or a sculpture from R'lyeh?
Does look as if it's made of stone, doesn't it.
I think it's a very young (and thus very small) squid. I guess the biologist couldn't afford color film.
The type of image makes it look either like stone or like an object under a strong microscope.
It would take a rather skilled artist to actually do that in stone.
It's not Friday and this is not a cephalopod.
Nonetheless, one of the nice members at TOP posted this video of a swimming Leptocephalus larva (transparent eel) and I thought it was lovely to watch.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/LeptocephalusConger.jpg/240px-LeptocephalusConger.jpg)
video: trying to out-swim the camera (http://wimp.com/transparenteel/)
Leptocephalus background wiki entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptocephalus)
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ps: googling for video brings up several cool clips!
Quote from: pieces o nine on June 29, 2011, 06:32:08 AM
It's not Friday and this is not a cephalopod.
Nonetheless, one of the nice members at TOP posted this video of a swimming Leptocephalus larva (transparent eel) and I thought it was lovely to watch.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/LeptocephalusConger.jpg/240px-LeptocephalusConger.jpg)
video: trying to out-swim the camera (http://wimp.com/transparenteel/)
Leptocephalus background wiki entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptocephalus)
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ps: googling for video brings up several cool clips!
Yes, one of the many strange and beautiful creatures under the sea.
Ok...I almost didn't post today's cephalopod. It is more than just ugly, IMHO, but is pretty grotesque. I finally decided to just post a link and you can look at it if you want. You have been warned.
Here is a dead (or possibly dying) giant squid...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/07/friday_cephalopod_thats_how_i/giantsquid.jpeg
Not a pretty picture.
I seem to remember that poor blighter.
How about these guys (http://boingboing.net/images/molusc1_468x351.jpg)?
Quote from: Opsa on July 03, 2011, 08:00:42 PM
I seem to remember that poor blighter.
How about these guys (http://boingboing.net/images/molusc1_468x351.jpg)?
These look right right out of a computer
Squid in school.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/07/friday_cephalopod_summer_schoo/squidschool.jpeg)
Which class: Reeling, Writhing, Drawling, Stretching, or Fainting in Coils? :)
We have the Griffin, where's the Mock Turtle? ;D
Ya mean as in "ambition, distraction, uglification and derision"?
Very pretty squidlings today, Aphos. You brightened my Friday! They'd make a foin desktop display, too.
Here's a Wednesday special edition...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/07/i_do_not_need_release_the_cudd/rawr.jpeg)
Ok, this is way technical, but has some cool stuff about cephalopod evolution.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/07/the_greatest_science_paper_eve.php
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/07/friday_cephalopod/cockatoosquid.jpeg)
Awwww... it's Squidward's baby picture!
Wow! That looks like something one of my grandmas would have made in 'Ceramics Class'. :o
The eyes look like made from copper
Quote from: Aphos on July 13, 2011, 11:43:56 PM
Ok, this is way technical, but has some cool stuff about cephalopod evolution.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/07/the_greatest_science_paper_eve.php
Awesome post! It got me thinking that this planet could perfectly be a version of the Mon Calamari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_planets_%28M%E2%80%93N%29#Mon_Calamari) if the life span of cephalopods were longer, the basic elements that define the group come from the
Cambrian!
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on July 16, 2011, 05:10:38 PM
Quote from: Aphos on July 13, 2011, 11:43:56 PM
Ok, this is way technical, but has some cool stuff about cephalopod evolution.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/07/the_greatest_science_paper_eve.php
Awesome post! It got me thinking that this planet could perfectly be a version of the Mon Calamari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_planets_%28M%E2%80%93N%29#Mon_Calamari) if the life span of cephalopods were longer, the basic elements that define the group come from the Cambrian!
Many, many years ago I was playing SimEarth and had a race of technological cephalopods evolve. Unfortunately, an asteroid strike hit near their home before they could spread out and the tsunami wiped them out. It was a sad gaming moment.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/07/squid.jpeg)
^ That.
Is lovely.
Looking innocent after being caught with the tentacle in the fish paste cookie jar.
He seems to be wiping his brow with his eyes heavenward, as if saying "Whew, that was close!"
I wish I could find jewelery this pretty.
Here are a few and two real ones
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7H5daARk5A/SjbyNDYTH6I/AAAAAAAAHIo/dphRmtIQcoo/s400/jasper+squid+pendant+brooch.jpg)(http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/5BBDC5AB.jpg)
(http://www.martymagic.com/product_images/d/936/Squid-Jewelry__43988_std.jpg)(http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_170x135.216012642.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VLIrGJy94j0/S2R-SoMlLcI/AAAAAAAABIQ/pBFcwr3HHPk/s400/giant-squid-necklace.jpg)(https://www.artfire.com/admin/product_images/thumbs/--120000--93125_product_1724706961_thumb_large.jpg)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7H5daARk5A/SjbyNDYTH6I/AAAAAAAAHIo/dphRmtIQcoo/s400/jasper+squid+pendant+brooch.jpg
http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/5BBDC5AB.jpg
http://www.martymagic.com/product_images/d/936/Squid-Jewelry__43988_std.jpg
http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_170x135.216012642.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VLIrGJy94j0/S2R-SoMlLcI/AAAAAAAABIQ/pBFcwr3HHPk/s400/giant-squid-necklace.jpg
https://www.artfire.com/admin/product_images/thumbs/--120000--93125_product_1724706961_thumb_large.jpg
(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk0pc2DX4y1qfkp3oo1_500.jpg)(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5170/5203332073_03a19212b8.jpg)
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk0pc2DX4y1qfkp3oo1_500.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5170/5203332073_03a19212b8.jpg
Awwwwww.... da widdle bitty metallic turquoise guy at the end ish the cutest squidling I ever saw!!!! YESH HE ISH!!!!
(I'm blushing at my gushing!)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/07/friday_cephalopod_squee_just_s/babysquid.jpeg)
Squids in Space!
ummmm, how many squidlings are in that photo?
Just to let you know, PZ Myers has moved Pharyngula to a new server. It can now be found at
http://freethoughtblogs.com/
Quote from: Aphos on July 30, 2011, 04:25:05 AM
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/07/friday_cephalopod_squee_just_s/babysquid.jpeg)
That one looks like Jimmy Durante wit da measels!
Peek-a-boo...I see you.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/08/cuttlefish.jpeg)
Awwww... what a happy face he seems to have! :)
Indeed. Full of natural curiosity about this strange and wonderful world.
Here's a short video on the Colossal Squid.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/08/colossal_squid_1.php
Welcome to my fortress of solitude...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/08/friday_cephalopod_who_says_cep/octoshell.jpeg)
Why grow a shell when you can just find one?
The shell looks like it is the lower jaw of the animal making it look rather disgruntled :D
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 13, 2011, 08:39:42 AM
The shell looks like it is the lower jaw of the animal making it look rather disgruntled :D
Well, if you had some unknown guy poking a camera in your face, you might be disgusted too.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/08/bluesquid-300x199.jpg)
Hey, we two are soooo cool, dude
It's the aquamarine duo!
(http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/eedda5e0a20f012e2f8200163e41dd5b)
Hah! I saw that one and thought of you!
Yikes. Watch out for those tentacles.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/08/squidhooks.jpeg)
Humboldt squid or mesonychoteuthis?
Looks like my neighbor's teeth...
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 27, 2011, 07:07:57 PM
Humboldt squid or mesonychoteuthis?
Mesonychoteuthis...aka the Colossal Squid. Very good.
Nasty little claws it has on its tentacles. One can see some of the reasons this guy is a great predator.
But the whales still win every time (to our knowledge).
Maybe they should form a squid squad to go after those nasty voracious spermies.
How about that -- there *is* a Squid Squad! (http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nsl/systematic.html) :squidlings:
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Not to be confused with this one! (http://squidsquad.co.uk/)
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/09/friday_cephalopod_come_up_with/spearsquid.jpeg)
Y'arrrr! E'd make a foin Christmas ornament.
Wearing sequins?
Sort of a kid page but
make a giant squidhttp://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/build-a-squid/interactive (http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/build-a-squid/interactive)
Fun! :squid_blue:
I think that is a rediscovery. We had this site already posted here somewhere when Auntie was still with us.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/09/squidinflight.jpeg)
^ That is *quite* a shot -- quite sculptural!
He manages to look peaceful and menacing at the same time.
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This link is mostly for swato's benefit (http://boingboing.net/2011/01/13/cthulhu-the-neck-tie.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29), but anyone else who has to wear corporate drag might like it too.
Following a link on pieces' page.... this is a bit NSFW (http://boingboing.net/2010/12/11/cthulhu-sex-toys.html#previouspost), and I'm not quite sure for whose benefit.
Quote from: Aggie on September 10, 2011, 04:43:15 AM
Following a link on pieces' page.... this is a bit NSFW (http://boingboing.net/2010/12/11/cthulhu-sex-toys.html#previouspost), and I'm not quite sure for whose benefit.
I'm partial to this one, myself (perfectly safe pic-- well, mostly... you know how twitchy those elder gods can be...)
http://boingboing.net/2009/05/05/cthulhu-ski-mask.html#previouspost (http://boingboing.net/2009/05/05/cthulhu-ski-mask.html#previouspost)
Okay, here's the acutal pic-- it may not work, though
(http://craphound.com/images/crotchcthul.jpeg)
I can see it.
Nice one
Given the coulor of the visible skin it must be John Boehner aka John of Orange.
That's amazing - worn over a small set of mirrored or dark goggles, it'd be a great ski mask.
Quote from: Aggie on September 10, 2011, 07:52:19 PM
That's amazing - worn over a small set of mirrored or dark goggles, it'd be a great ski mask.
Oooh... could you imagine a set of sunglasses with faceted lenses instead?
That'd look totally cool....
:)
Ayuh, but you might hit a tree if you were actually skiing. ;)
Once again, the vampire squid...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/09/vampyroteuthis.jpeg)
SQUIIIIIDS IIIIIN SPAAAAACE!
:)
Begod, it is Miss Squiddy, to the life.
I always supected she was two-faced :mrgreen:
Sorry I'm late, guys. Right after my last post, my ISP went haywire and I just got back online yesterday. Been catching up, so here is last week's cephalopod.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/09/friday_cephalopod_blue_is_beau/bluering.jpeg)
Pretty little thing. A blue ringed octopus. Only 2 or 3 inches across. But don't touch. Very, very poisonous.
And not surprising, it lives off the shores of Oz.
He would make an awesome squeeze toy if he wasn't so toxic!
This little clip uses the very same picture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRexWQhs3M
Back on schedule...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/09/humboldtsquid.jpeg)
A humboldt squid. Nasty, but non-toxic.
I think he's kinda pretty. Like an airstream trailer (http://willspoint.olx.com/1979-28-airstream-travel-trailer-iid-2490111).
I thought the guys were red.
Totally unrelated:
Scientists found out that deep sea cephalopods are bisexual.
It's so dark down there that males of at least the species Octopoteuthis deletron inject their sperm into anything that moves and is family without first checking that it is female.
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 01, 2011, 09:28:12 AM
I thought the guys were red.
Totally unrelated:
Scientists found out that deep sea cephalopods are bisexual.
It's so dark down there that males of at least the species Octopoteuthis deletron inject their sperm into anything that moves and is family without first checking that it is female.
Wow...must be REALLY dark down there.
Or they just know how to have a good time. ;D
With 8 arms/hands to choose from? I'd certainly hope so...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/10/cephinabox.jpeg)
Now that's funny!
Bloctopus! :D
I feel sorry for it. What's with the Houdini box, anyway?
The box doesn't look locked, is it fair to assume that the octopus decided to go inside and close the lid by himself?
No. ;D
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on October 10, 2011, 05:02:28 PM
The box doesn't look locked, is it fair to assume that the octopus decided to go inside and close the lid by himself?
He knows it's hip to be square.
wait ... octopus don't
have hips ... does they?
It's Froiday!!!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/10/longfin.jpeg)
Sure that's not a Hippo with eye makeup?
Well, metallic eye makeup is 'in' this fall...
Lookin' good, squid mama!
With so many freckles (s)he should avoid sunbathing.
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/10/redoctopus.jpeg)
That would look super on a black t-shirt!
Ist that octopus mooning or is it an exhibitionist?
...it might be the cephalopod version of mooning someone...
Quote from: SwatoIst that octopus mooning or is it an exhibitionist?
Possibly. I don't know where it keeps its bits. :mrgreen:
I think indecency laws would be impossible for cephalopods since every part of the female can be the receptacle of the sperm.
The male ones could be forced to wear gloves though since they use the tip of one of their tentacles to stick the sperm to the female. Is it indecent for squidlings to look at pictures of sperm whales?
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/10/occapus.jpeg)
He's very pretty, but he's only got seven test tentacles.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on October 28, 2011, 07:10:16 PM
He's very pretty, but he's only got seven test tentacles.
One left to play ball
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on October 28, 2011, 07:10:16 PM
He's very pretty, but he's only got seven test tentacles.
I count eight...but one is just barely visible.
Ah, so he's hiding one. He's up to no good, I'll be bound. :mrgreen:
It's Friday...and you know what that means!!!
(http://ocean.si.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/750xX/photos/4-Cranchid_1-full_1.jpg)
In other news...
Made in His Noodly image...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/11/botanical_wednesday_halloween/batflower.jpeg)
Yeay! It's the Friday Squid Kids!!!
Both of those are very pretty beings. I want a balloon that looks like that first guy.
Thanks, Aphos! :-*
Hi, Opsa.
And then there is this...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/11/wearethe97-thumb-500x368-70343.jpeg)
Oh, and there is this...
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/11/octopy.jpeg)
^(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Laughing_RoflSmileyLJ.gif)
HOLY COW- I mean- BULL!
That's great.
For Swato...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/11/pthulhu.jpeg)
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Kilpisjaervisteinen_B_1.png)
It's all about the cephalopods...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/11/leachia.jpeg)
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/11/leachia.jpeg
Where's Waldo?
File not found
Make that: whole website not found
The squidlings probably ate it. I hear they're on a bender.
More "Where's Waldo".
I am assured there really is a cephalopod in this picture. I think I can see a tentacle.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/11/hiding.jpeg)
RE: previous post...
FreethoughtBlogs was down for maintenance for a day or so. Sorry, didn't think about that.
Peek a boo I see you
Pretty good camouflage, though.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on November 19, 2011, 10:02:44 AM
Pretty good camouflage, though.
Yeah. Isn't it.
I could only make out some suckers on one tentacle until I finally looked for the eyes and then the octopus became visible. He does a very good job of looking like a green rock.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/11/bbcocto.jpeg)
It's coming for YOU!
To a restaurant near me, more like.
The Horror! The Horror!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/11/little_ms_temple.jpeg)
^ Possible inspiration for more Cthulic poetry? :)
People turning into cephalopods (and other seafood)?
Try Calamari Wrestler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamari_Wrestler).
Trashy but very funny (and available on DVD).
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/12/blackfisk.jpeg)
Awww, look at 'im waving at us with half his little tentaclettes.
Are you sure that it is not doing a salute of the disapproved kind ;)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/12/gpoctopus.jpeg)
Yowza, that there's a big fellah.
Here's someone to keep him company:
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q180/tommyblank/squid.jpg)
That's a hexapussy ;)
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 12, 2011, 09:56:35 PM
That's a hexapussy ;)
But...but... She has eight arms... ??? ::) :P
Six feet (-pod) and two arms. Same way that a centaur is a two-armed quadruped.
For this week's Cephalopod, I give you... OCTOPIE!
Oops. Running a bit late this week.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/12/italian_octo.jpeg)
So here's a Christmas bonus...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/12/CthulhuClause.jpeg)
Is the first one a photo or a painting?
Quote from: Opsa on December 19, 2011, 03:18:36 PM
Is the first one a photo or a painting?
Photo. Though it does look rather surreal.
What about the second one? ???
I thought about axing that... ;)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/12/wonderpus.jpeg)
And this week, a video bonus...
http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swfbin/watch_as3-vfl_Lbs4f.swf
I get an error message for the video but the picture is beautiful
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 24, 2011, 08:00:18 AM
I get an error message for the video but the picture is beautiful
Works for me. <shrug> Do you have Flash blocked?
Maybe the original Pharyngula post will work.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/12/23/friday-cephalopod-two-legsgood-eight-legsdivine/
The first link gave me an error message as well, but the video plays correctly -- albeitly weirdly -- through Pharyngula.
:squidlings:
Second one works. I go to youtube. On page is often shaky but clicking at bottom left right goes to youtube page from where I download it.
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 24, 2011, 08:46:49 AM
Second one works. I go to youtube. On page is often shaky but clicking at bottom left right goes to youtube page from where I download it.
Good.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/396160_2893004329709_1398322573_33122337_2040008188_n.jpg)
Merry Christmas!!!
Pity the poor Humboldts...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/12/humboldt.jpeg)
But one is out for revenge...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/12/humboldtlive.jpeg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/01/glasssquid.jpeg)
Is that from an aquarium or a highly unorthodox church? :mrgreen:
Lost World Discovered Under Antarctica (http://lost%20world%20discovered%20under%20antarctica)
QuoteResearchers used a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to explore the depths of the East Scotia Ridge, which is full of hydrothermal vents which can reach up to 719 degrees Fahrenheit (382 degrees Celsius). They discovered an amazing new world packed with unknown species. According to project leader Professor Alex Rogers of Oxford University's Department of Zoology, these alien-looking white creatures are thriving in the rich chemicals ejected by the vents:
"Hydrothermal vents are home to animals found nowhere else on the planet that get their energy
not from the Sun but from breaking down chemicals, such as hydrogen sulphide. The first survey
of these particular vents, in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, has revealed a hot, dark,
'lost world' in which whole communities of previously unknown marine organisms thrive."
Some lividly cool photos in the article.
(http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2012/01/medium_bb3fb4ef47cfe2cc588bef8a02508c2e.png)
(http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2012/01/medium_6dc396578881504dc2245a23db0ebb17.png)
Quote from: SwatoIs that from an aquarium or a highly unorthodox church? :mrgreen:
Probably from a temple of Tarvu. It would not appear to be medieval work.
Well, there are some modern (at the time) glass windows in old-fashioned style in old churches
http://ewmanifold.blogspot.com/2011/10/stained-glass-windows-commemorating.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/therevsteve/1653029979/in/photostream/
and here is a sea creatures window from a church in Minnesota
http://www.worldofstock.com/stock_photos/PFR2264.php
Well, darn...P'o'Nine beat to today's picture.
Wha' the heck, it's worth posting again...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/01/deepseaocto.jpeg)
From 2400 meters down.
^ My eyes (brains?) play tricks with me when looking at that photo. They keep trying to apply some sort of 'appropriate' texture to that startling white surface. Polar fleece, maybe...
Lil' Cthulhu before turning green.
Do we have a 'fawning' ('oh so cute!') smiley?
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4368804089_c35e8c393e.jpg)
This one somehow looks like missing something (plus shaved off shorter tentacles)
He looks like a bobby with a handlebar moustache.
I keep seeing a [face] peering out from the head.
That squid is a costume, or a vehicle, or something!
Must be a mutant - but mutated from what?
Well, this isn't a cephalopod, but it is a mollusc. I give you...a sea angel...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/01/seaangel.jpeg)
It's gorgeous! About how big do they grow?
Fiery heart or fire in the belly?
Quote from: OpsaIt's gorgeous! About how big do they grow?
Yes, it needs a scale. Is it 2mm long or 34 yards? Can they eat swimmers?
Apparently they reach 5 cm max. Are they edible? ;D
Live at the Gilman House
Mr. Ogham Waite and the Amphibian Jazz Band
They play for you: My slimy cephalopod
http://www.cthulhulives.org/Gilman/index.html
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 01, 2012, 09:26:56 AM
Fiery heart or fire in the belly?
Looks nuclear powered to me.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/02/squidtech.jpeg)
OMG...It's ROBOSQUID!!!
Whoa! What's going on there? Physical therapy? Squidcam?
Quote from: Opsa on February 04, 2012, 03:33:18 PM
Whoa! What's going on there? Physical therapy? Squidcam?
Squidcam is more like it. I have seen similar cameras used on sperm whales to research what they are doing on those deep dives. The camera is designed to fall off once the battery runs out.
You can't fool me. They're making squids with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
Quote from: pieces o nine on February 05, 2012, 07:04:23 AM
You can't fool me. They're making squids with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
It's true. It's my new Strategic Squid Initiative. I'll be able to rule the oceans.
:bwa:
Curses! We must activate Operation Octobomb!
Deploy the Swiss Army Octopus!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/3048380730_a5b9b1f67a_o.png)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/3048380730_a5b9b1f67a_o.png
^ LOL :ROFL:
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/02/longfin.jpeg)
Squids in Warp/Hyperspace?
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 11, 2012, 09:05:57 AM
Squids in Warp/Hyperspace?
The squid horde moving out to conquer the world.
WE ARE THE SQUID
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
They're going in different directions; not good strategy for world conquest. ;D
Ahhh, they just want you to think that...
you're actually witnessing a sophisticated flanking maneuver!
:squidlings:
The omnidirectional sea-arrows have been deployed, Cap'n!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/02/goldsquid.jpeg)
Looks like it's carved from a lemon drop.
Follow the yellow squid float!
don't eat the yellow squids
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/02/flyingsquid.jpeg)
That somehow looks fake
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 24, 2012, 09:52:37 PM
That somehow looks fake
I agree. Mostly it's the skin stretched between the tentacles that makes it look like it has been photoshoped. But, while rare, this has been observed on many occasions. The reason isn't known, but the best hypothesis I've heard for the behavior is jumping out of the water to avoid predators.
Either that, or squid are experimenting with forming an air force.
Quote from: Aphos
Either that, or squid are experimenting with forming an air force.
Yes, Virginia, there
is a Squid Squadron!
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6131/6016547021_a330864f46.jpg)
PZ goes in for some gratuitous capitalism, offering T-shirts, coffee mugs and stuff.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/02/new_t.jpeg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/02/new_mug.jpeg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/02/old_t.jpeg)
Someone has put on their angry eyes...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/03/florida_squid.jpeg)
And the tentacles look quite a bit like antlers.
A neon stag squid? ;)
Woohoo!!! Octopi making woo. What could be sexier?
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/03/octolovin.jpeg)
Quote from: Aphos on March 09, 2012, 09:57:21 PM
Woohoo!!! Octopi making woo.
Are you sure that's what they're doing? Doesn't look like fun to me.
I think it is rather two octopoi doing the Mandelbrot.
Looks extremly fractal to me.
(http://www.savagechickens.com/wp-content/uploads/chickenjellyfish.jpg)
:ROFL: :thumbsup:
Love it!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/03/octopus.jpeg)
If one mistakes the stomach bag for a (cartoonish big) nose, this looks like a squid scout in Indian territory observing the lobster treck passing by :mrgreen:
Looks to me loik a loidy octopus languishing in her undersea apartment. She is leaning back on her rocky chaise an giving us a come-hither look.
On second look, it's more like a "get over here this minute" look.
I think she's checking under the rock for the tv remote.
Naw...
It's an octopus couch potato kicking back to watch the big game on the wide screen.
He seems to have forgotten the popcorn, though.
Isn't that just the way it goes? All comfy and you've forgotten the snack.
What a wonderful enteroctopus dofleini you have there. It appears to be giving us the cold shoulder(s). :D
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/03/octo-500x459.jpg)
What are those three alien creatures in the background, and what are they trying to do to that poor octopus?
They are ..... the Spanish Inquisition!!! :mua: :inquisition:
Is that octopus mooning us? Or starring us?
He might be farting in our general direction... :squid_blue:
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on March 23, 2012, 07:07:29 PM
They are ..... the Spanish Inquisition!!! :mua: :inquisition:
Can't be the Spanish Inquisition
(TM).
Where are their nifty red suits? :doh!:
Octopi have wings!!!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/03/cephalogull-500x333.jpg)
^ WTFSM? Did that octopus just catch a bird? :D
Whoopee, pigeon and seafood pie! :meal:
Quote from: Roland Deschain on March 31, 2012, 04:52:07 AM
^ WTFSM? Did that octopus just catch a bird? :D
Yup. I believe there is a video of the event.
Seagull Surprise!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/04/png_cuttle.jpeg)
Ah...Who's a coot li'l cuttlefish?
You are!
Nice cuttlefish. Much prettier than the one I saw in Greece.
Cuddly cuttlefish.
Orrible scary-looking blighter.
Y'arrgh, but just fink how feerce yud look cuddlin' 'im.
Quote from: Opsa on April 07, 2012, 02:55:17 PM
Y'arrgh, but just fink how feerce yud look cuddlin' 'im.
Not to mention how much slimier you'd be. :mrgreen:
Oh, sure, he *looks* cuddly.
But *this* is what he's planning!
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cuttlefish.png)
Beware the Mayan Death Squid
(http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/05ea34105a83012f2fd500163e41dd5b)
Is that the thing the North Koreans are launching?
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/04/redocto-500x375.jpg)
Be still, my beating octopod!
Who do you want to hug now?
:cthulhu:
It looks more like an elephant - some parts, anyway.
To me it looks more like the bid red bullfrog wizard :mrgreen:
Now this is kinda cool. If you want a very comprehensive listing of extant cephalopod species, with lots of pictures to boot, here are a couple of pdf files...
Jereb, P.; Roper, C.F.E. (eds) Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0150e/a0150e00.htm
Jereb, P.; Roper, C.F.E. (eds) Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 2.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e00.htm
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/04/cuttle-500x669.jpg)
Well blow me down if it aint a sterling silver cuttlefish!
I'd rather say mother-of-pearl
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 20, 2012, 09:38:54 PM
I'd rather say mother-of-pearl
There's a cuttlefish called 'Pearl?
Quote from: The Meromorph on April 20, 2012, 09:45:16 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 20, 2012, 09:38:54 PM
I'd rather say mother-of-pearl
There's a cuttlefish called 'Pearl?
Pearl swam off to another shore for an unspecified operation; all we know for sure is that now s/he goes by "Chiton".
^ + ^^ ;D
Nice cuttlefish. Such a wonderful skin and eye pattern on him/her.
The eyelash effect is pretty cute, too.
It almost looks contemplative or questioning. ???
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/04/octopus_paralarva.jpeg)
Just one word...WOW!
Wow! is right -- this one looks like a jeweled ornament, or an intricate textile art piece!
Quote from: pieces o nine on April 28, 2012, 02:43:36 AM
Wow! is right -- this one looks like a jeweled ornament, or an intricate textile art piece!
My thoughts exactly. A lot deep down there looks like coming from an (often deranged) artist's mind. :mrgreen:
There appears to be a small rodent riding on its shoulder.
Arrrgh, that be thee hocktopi hekwivalent ov a parrot.
Quote from: pieces o nine on April 28, 2012, 10:24:08 PM
Arrrgh, that be thee hocktopi hekwivalent ov a parrot.
Does he sit on the shoulder of a squid pirate?
Quote from: Aphos on April 29, 2012, 08:39:07 AM
Quote from: pieces o nine on April 28, 2012, 10:24:08 PM
Arrrgh, that be thee hocktopi hekwivalent ov a parrot.
Does he sit on the shoulder of a squid pirate?
Aye, but which one ov is legs be the wooden one?
Quote from: Opsa on April 29, 2012, 10:01:49 PM
Quote from: Aphos on April 29, 2012, 08:39:07 AM
Quote from: pieces o nine on April 28, 2012, 10:24:08 PM
Arrrgh, that be thee hocktopi hekwivalent ov a parrot.
Does he sit on the shoulder of a squid pirate?
Aye, but which one ov is legs be the wooden one?
Quid got legs? ???
It's not Friday, but...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/04/octomoon.jpeg)
Quote from: Aphos on April 30, 2012, 08:59:50 AM
Quid got legs? ???
Of course
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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513zp5axjgL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/05/Squid4-500x295.jpg)
That is on SKINNY squid.
He doesn't drink, he watches his carbs, he can press eight benches...
I'd say this is not a squid at all but a member of the carrot family.
Or, indeed, a chili pepper.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on May 06, 2012, 11:02:31 AM
Or, indeed, a chili pepper.
At that depth, it can't help but be chilly... :mrgreen:
Well folks, no new cephalopod posted yet. Will get back later today or tomorrow. As for now...
Pancakes!!!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/05/pancake-art-500x500.jpg)
Quote from: Aphos on May 10, 2012, 06:09:35 PM
Well folks, no new cephalopod posted yet. Will get back later today or tomorrow. As for now...
Pancakes!!!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/05/pancake-art-500x500.jpg)
Wow! Are these real? They are amazing!
Humans are learning cephalopod tricks:
http://inhabitat.com/bristol-university-creates-artificial-muscles-that-can-camouflage-themselves-like-squid/
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/05/Taonius_pavo-500x346.jpg)
There's not anything to give scale, but I get the impression this is a teeny tiny squidling.
Looks like crawling out of a test tube.
Or is it Count Dracusquid in an extra high necked frock?
If it's over ten feet long, I don't like it.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on May 11, 2012, 08:13:27 PM
If it's over ten feet long, I don't like it.
extremitist!
Those pancakes are amazing. I want to make mine like that!
Aaahhhh, I like the little squidling. It's cute.
Here's our little friend the Flamboyant Cuttlefish again.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/05/flamboyant_cuttles-500x520.jpg)
Looks more like the rabbit-eared orchid to me
Holy sea-cow! I think I can make out an eye, but I can't figure out the rest of him!
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 have the suspicion that they are related to this (http://www.littlebigplanet.com/images/assets/shared/dlc/imagery/mandrill1.jpg) nice fellow.
Time to play hide and seek...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/05/sandy-500x357.jpg)
Quote from: Roland Deschain on May 23, 2012, 02:57:00 PM
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.
This one tries to disguise itself as a fractal
Do they sting you, or are they just poisonous to eat?
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on May 26, 2012, 09:49:46 AM
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".
Where's the cephalopod? All I can see is sand. :giggle:
It looks like a haggis with bolt-on extras of some kind.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/06/histioteuthis.jpeg)
Spaceship!
It's a Fabergé squid! :)
That's a remarkable colouration there.
It's an Elvis lookalike.
Quote from: Aphos on June 02, 2012, 04:32:51 AM
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/06/histioteuthis.jpeg)
Looks more like a cheese grater to me. But pretty!
Prepare to be amazed...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/06/squidstar-500x502.jpg)
Some other, equally gorgeous pictures can be found here...
http://thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-development-cover-%E2%80%93-woods-hole-%E2%80%93-round-2/
jellysquiddies on LSD?
gorgeous!
Is it a kaleidoscope job?
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on June 09, 2012, 09:40:49 AM
Is it a kaleidoscope job?
I thought so too at first but there are some subtle differences (compare for example the left 'horns')
Really, I can't tell you much about this one other than the figures are squid embryos. I assume they are arranged around some sort of yolk sac.
This is a proposed cover for a magazine titled "Development", which is about evo-devo (evolutionary development). That is sort of an extension of Haeckle's ideas, studying embryonic development to gain insight into evolutionary paths.
Truly astounding. I wonder what they look like "live".
The markers apparently are differential stains... fluoro-marked antibodies, I would guess.
Quote from: Opsa on June 09, 2012, 03:21:16 PM
Truly astounding. I wonder what they look like "live".
Sadly, I am pretty sure these little guys are dead. They have been stained with florescent dyes to bring out the detail.
The web page explains what dyes were used.
:'(
I wish I could animate them walking around like little armies.
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. :)
Ooh, I wonder if anyone has made a parachute jump using dayglo costumes and black light spotlights.
Quote from: Opsa on June 11, 2012, 06:08:49 PM
I wish I could animate them walking around like little armies.
They do look like little soldiers, don't they?
I imagine you can modify them genetically to glow while alive.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on June 13, 2012, 12:47:00 AM
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. :(
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.
Apologies. I'm a day late and a dollar short.
Here we have a tentacle of a vampire squid.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/06/vampyroteuthisarm-500x332.jpg)
For more strange and beautiful undersea life, see...
http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/pelagic%20animals.html
Are you sure that thing is native to our planet?
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on June 16, 2012, 05:40:08 PM
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.
The way it is photographed it looks also like the tail end of an archaic proto-dinosaur, halfway between a polacanthus and a dimetrodon.
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 18, 2012, 07:55:37 PM
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.
Quote from: Roland Deschain on June 22, 2012, 07:41:59 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 18, 2012, 07:55:37 PM
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.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VJuG8x8nmCY/Tyce7aycH4I/AAAAAAAABjQ/Ej__rIassEQ/s1600/Pitch_Black_Creature_by_sizzybubbles.jpg)
Well, not really. But something about it brings it to mind.
Yeah!!! It's Friday! And you know what that means. A new cephalopod!
Here's a coot li'l feller.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/06/orangeocto.jpg)
Looks like a piece of well-made glassware from a head shop. ;D
Quote from: Aggie on June 23, 2012, 06:15:40 AM
Looks like a piece of well-made glassware from a head shop. ;D
Glass or balloon indeed. Very cute.
It's a genetically modified giraffe.
Quote from: Aphos on June 23, 2012, 02:18:01 AM
Here's a coot li'l feller.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/06/orangeocto.jpg)
How cute! He seems to be filled with marmalade.
Quote from: Aphos on June 23, 2012, 02:16:18 AM
Looks like one of the monster critters in Pitch Black.
I hadn't thought of that. :o
This Friday's cephalopod is gorgeous. I want one!
Cephalopods and CATS!!! What could be better?
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/06/PelagicOctopusorbit--500x666.jpg)
Unfortunately, the cat is likely thinking "Sushi!!!"
Somehow I suspect he is buying a world of pain if he tries.
Great octopus there. Little puddy may just be curious.
Here is architeuthis, the giant squid.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/07/architeuthis.jpg)
I think he is trying to audition for the next remake of 40,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
And here is some nice cake
(http://www.cakewrecks.com/storage/thumbnails/10710906-18916466-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1340518467566)
http://www.cakewrecks.com/storage/thumbnails/10710906-18916466-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1340518467566
Is the giant squid pictured living at the time of the photograph? (I hope he doesn't eat all the cake.)
Quote from: OpsaI hope he doesn't eat all the cake.
Cake? He could swallow the whole bakery without chewing.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/07/PopePZ-500x531.jpg)
PZ Myers upon his squidly throne.
That is the most adorable hat ever!
Who asked for adorable hats?
(http://www.katyelliott.com/blog/uploaded_images/6a00e5502b85f4883300e5535ac2ca8833-500wi-763049.jpg)
http://www.katyelliott.com/blog/uploaded_images/6a00e5502b85f4883300e5535ac2ca8833-500wi-763049.jpg
Okay, now that is the most adorable hat I've ever seen!
I guess there are some even cuter out there
Just Cthulufy it:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-7gz1x_HNjE/TLWWrbV6J7I/AAAAAAAACj4/gacgbH2TB4c/s1600/cthulhu_glasses.jpg)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-7gz1x_HNjE/TLWWrbV6J7I/AAAAAAAACj4/gacgbH2TB4c/s1600/cthulhu_glasses.jpg
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/031/1/d/cthulhu_hat_and_dress_handmade_by_grapevinefiresdotcom-d38hvx8.jpg)
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/031/1/d/cthulhu_hat_and_dress_handmade_by_grapevinefiresdotcom-d38hvx8.jpg
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5048/5322068372_c6468ae52e.jpg)
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5048/5322068372_c6468ae52e.jpg
But back to the original topic
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0YTZJpJ8Jp8/SiAbSdubo4I/AAAAAAAAFeY/SIvlmdymqAc/s400/squid_cat_hat.jpg)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0YTZJpJ8Jp8/SiAbSdubo4I/AAAAAAAAFeY/SIvlmdymqAc/s400/squid_cat_hat.jpg
Speaking of cute hats...
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JncmpGTKiLk/Sfk5U58yn3I/AAAAAAAAARk/2DHHzgzSP70/s400/20090427_nakasone_hnl_0244rweb.jpg)
Aaahh!
Some squid prawn...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/07/Euprymna-500x322.jpg)
Looks more like a crab with a Japanese daimyo hat :mrgreen:
No, I think it's two squids having a naughty. Prawn indeed. :mrgreen:
It could be the Graeco-Roman Wrestling event at the SquidLympics... :cthulhu:
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/07/SquidColor.jpg)
Rush hour on the squidway
Wouldn't that be cool done as a glass sculpture?
That's disgusting! I never thought i'd see prawn in a thread about squid! :mrgreen:
Those cuddly cuttlefish...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/08/Georgia-Aquarium-Cuttlefish-500x326.jpg)
The one underneath looks seriously cheesed off. The one on top is all eager. Just like married couples, really.
The upper is pontificating, the lower is bored.
You mean 'pontificating' as in abusing a choirboy?
Not necessarily but it may be the first step
Quote from: Aphos on August 10, 2012, 06:43:18 PM
Those cuddly cuttlefish...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/08/Georgia-Aquarium-Cuttlefish-500x326.jpg)
The lower one could either have the lovelights in its eyes, or be saying "Are you quite finished?" It's hard to tell.
The one at the top appears to be conducting an orchestra. So sweet.
If you look closely, the top one's 2nd tentacle has gone blue. That's a sure sign.
Heheheh. Talking of cuttlefish, when I was on a boat trip to an island near Kos, while snorkelling, I floated above a cuttlefish for around half an hour. I saw him/her change colour and back again, too. I was so transfixed with it, I lost track of time. I really wanted to see it eat, but it just sat there for the whole time.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/08/octopusmating-500x437.jpg)
That looks like a cast iron sulpture :mrgreen:
If the cult of Cthulhu ever makes a cathedral the dome should look like that.
I'd buy that for a dollar! It would make a nice sculpture in the garden, maybe even the roof for a pagoda.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/08/blanket-octopus.jpg)
Meet the blanket octopus.
Hmm... I wonder what the blanket's for.
Look! Up near the surface! It's a bird- it's a plane- it's SUPER-OCTO!!!
Flying ad banners?
We all know the reason for that Octopus' evolution:-
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3004980458_73e5b5bce0.jpg)
Itty bitty squidies...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/09/marketsquid-500x375.jpg)
Are they our squidlings?
That one at the top does look like our Charlie T. Squidling. I can tell by all the printer ink on his tentacles.
Cute squidlings there.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on September 09, 2012, 09:30:37 AM
Are they our squidlings?
If there's something you and Aphos want to come out with, it's ok. We are very accepting. ;D
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/09/caldwell_bluering.jpg)
Cute lil guy, but don't touch.
This somehow looks like a helmet or eccentric hat to me :mrgreen:
Is that the blue-ringed octopus? Cute chap/chapess, but not much on the cuddling front. :mrgreen:
Holy Carp! It's a TRON-topus!
The mouth of the beast...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/09/squidbeak-500x409.jpg)
Say "Ahhhh"!
Can't say I like the look of that.
* reaction of man on street *
It looks like a alien... :o
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63039000/jpg/_63039991_jex_1518231_de27_2.jpg)
This cuttlefish has his own radio tag.
Maybe he can tune in rock 'n' roll.
squid with laser beam?
Poor little feller, getting tagged.
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 29, 2012, 08:49:29 AM
squid with laser beam?
That would be "squids with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!"
no, their mantle.
They have no shoulders to put it on
Kinda sad, like a kitten with an electrode in it's head, only shinier.
We should be careful. This may be the first of the squid army that will invade the land and take over the world.
Of course, we just might have a better world if the squid took over.
Squid would be less likely to think in terms of false dichotomies. Squid would have...
On the one hand...
And on the other hand...
And on the other hand...
And on the other hand...
And on the other hand...
And on the other hand...
And on the other hand...
And on the other hand...
And on the other hand...
And on the other hand...
Or maybe tentacle instead of hand...
All those armed arms. The mind boggles.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/squideye.jpg)
I'm looking at you...
Here's looking at you, squid!
Cephalopodocephalic Halloween Costumes:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Super-quick-last-minute-Squid-costume/
Just be careful not to be mistaken for KKK
Cute... but he sort of looks like he's in the execution position.
I like some of the squid-on-head ones better (and better for drinking).
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/dumbo.jpg)
And the elephant's head put on its running shoes to hunt down the guy who had taken its trunk
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 13, 2012, 07:48:34 PM
And the elephant's head put on its running shoes to hunt down the guy who had taken its trunk
LOL
The tentacles do look like running shoes, don't they.
LOL! That is so cute. They look like big, clumsy orthopedic shoes.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/Gabon_octopus-500x370.jpg)
Squidlings! Many, many squidlings!
Who dropped them into the milk?
They're sea wasps.
No, Sea wasps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_wasp) look like this:
(http://caitbiology.wikispaces.com/file/view/sea_wasp.jpg/338491888/sea_wasp.jpg)
http://caitbiology.wikispaces.com/file/view/sea_wasp.jpg/338491888/sea_wasp.jpg
Also wasps are striped not spotted. ;D
Wow. 72 pages of cephalopod goodness.
They look like a bowl of puffed wheat! :D
(http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00005.K1fhxn8ZM/s/750/bowl-puffed-wheat.jpg)
no that looks more like shellfish :mrgreen:
They look like the love-children of Mr. Peanut. (or is there a Mrs. Peanut?)
Last commercials I saw, there is Mr Peanut, Mr. peanut's stunt double (peanut Butter Doug), and Mr. Peanut's two equally hyper-masculine Nut friends.
There is no Mrs. Peanut.
:)
Oh well, maybe he's gay. But we're cool with that.
A day late and a dollar short, but still...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/spottysquid.jpg)
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww...
That blue eye is quite striking!
Sweet! It reminds me of an orchid (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MMRyRM_fMHc/Ttf-LsVHoVI/AAAAAAAAIyw/icM6gLKsk5Y/s1600/Vanda%2Bfrankieana%2B2.jpg).
it also looks like very expensive sweets :mrgreen:
It looks more like a giraffe to me. ;)
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on October 28, 2012, 10:13:50 AM
It looks more like a giraffe to me. ;)
that too but one made from porcelain or icing
It's not Friday, but scientists are undertaking a massive cephalopod gene sequencing project. Here are pictures of the species that will be used...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/o_vulgaris1-300x200.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/o_bimaculoides1-300x200.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/h_maculosa1-300x205.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/s_officinalis1-300x200.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/l_pealeii1-300x202.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/e_scolopes1-300x175.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/i_paradoxus1-300x200.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/i_notoides1-300x153.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/a_dux1.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/n_pompilius-300x260.jpg)
Where's vampyrotheutis infernalis?
Pretty Cephalopeeps!
Quote from: Swatopluk on October 29, 2012, 08:17:07 PM
Where's vampyrotheutis infernalis?
I know. I know. It didn't make the final cut.
Quote from: Opsa on October 30, 2012, 02:57:42 PM
Pretty Cephalopeeps!
A new Peeps (http://www.peepsandcompany.com/) concept! :)
CthuluPeep would be very popular on college campuses, I'll bet. :cthulhu:
WARNING!!!
EXTREME CUTENESS FACTOR
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/10/halloweenchild.jpg)
AWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwww...! A lil' Squidling baby!
* musing: I wonder if any *other* animal in the history of Earth has thought about dressing up its young as other animals for cuteness? *
It's Friday, and you know what that means...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/11/squideye.jpg)
a leopard fly squid? ;)
Looks like a venetian glass squid!
I think it's a decoration on a Faberge Egg.
Is that a wrench he's holding up?
Or is he just glad to see you? ;)
Quote from: pieces o nine on November 06, 2012, 03:11:45 AM
Or is he just glad to see you? ;)
P- I'm glad I'm not drinking anything, or I would have sprayed it all over me screen!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/11/haughtycephalopod.jpg)
He used to be transparent until he got at the egg-nog.
Rather depressed looking lil fella
Do you think so? I think he's adorable. I just wanna pick him up and coo at him, but I won't because he's probably microscopic.
On the other hand ... :mrgreen:
On the other seven...
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on November 09, 2012, 04:50:59 PM
He used to be transparent until he got at the egg-nog.
:ROFL:
This was a really good one! :1stprize:
Why thank'ee, maam.
He is humming to himself, "I am the Walrus. Coo-coo-coo-joo..."
Check out this ceramic octopus cup (http://fab.com/inspiration/octopus-creature-cup-15oz).
Interesting (but probably a pain to clean)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/11/redocto.jpg)
Cute!
Looks like it is trying to give the owner of the finger a command with the right uppermost tentacle
Nice little feller!
I need that baby octopus! It's so cute! ;D
I ate baby octopus the other day. There were 6 in a tub, and were delicious!
Quote from: Aphos on November 17, 2012, 06:15:59 PM
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/11/redocto.jpg)
Six of him wouldn't make much of a meal. I like the self-righteous look in his eye.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/11/octopus_vulgaris-500x333.jpg)
Lazily reclined against a coral the little octopus relaxes
Ya think so? It looked to me as if he was booking it to the right.
Depends on whether one interprets the stomach as the nose or as the back of the head :mrgreen:
I was thinking more of the direction of all his tentacles.
I don't know what he's been smoking, but I'd like some.
Not as cute as the mini octopus, but still cool, nonetheless. I love octopi.
A very close close-up.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/11/pattern-500x271.jpg)
That would make some very cool wallpaper.
It also reminds me of certain feline predators (and mosaic work).
Quote from: OpsaThat would make some very cool wallpaper.
I think there are laws about using wildlife for home decoration.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on December 01, 2012, 11:10:17 AM
Quote from: OpsaThat would make some very cool wallpaper.
I think there are laws about using wildlife for home decoration.
:giggle:
You'd also need the 1970s back. :mrgreen:
The fur got all used up for Miss Barbarella's spaceship cockpit
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v0fV15P7uQo/S6DpkCqJrZI/AAAAAAAAHZE/AHhYq-sZuig/s400/cockpit+barbarella7.jpg)
But iirc there was no tentacle monster in that movie
Quote from: Swatopluk on December 01, 2012, 02:44:43 PM
The fur got all used up for Miss Barbarella's spaceship cockpit
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v0fV15P7uQo/S6DpkCqJrZI/AAAAAAAAHZE/AHhYq-sZuig/s400/cockpit+barbarella7.jpg)
But iirc there was no tentacle monster in that movie
What about Duran Duran?
Duran is a type of glass not fur ;)
Admittedly some fur was also found in the possession of the hunter who saved Miss Barbarella from the sadistic kids.
Maybe they got it from this guy (http://th02.deviantart.net/fs47/200H/i/2009/221/0/b/fuzzy_brown_squid_by_Rocksabileelapapdi.jpg).
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/12/humboldt.jpeg)
He's got angry eyes.
Supersquid to the rescue
He looks positively chortly!
He looks like a used-car salesman. I don't trust him.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on December 08, 2012, 09:07:44 AM
He looks like a used-car salesman. I don't trust him.
Is it the shifty eyes, or does he just seem slimy? ;D
Both, and all those suckers look like rows of gleaming teeth.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on December 08, 2012, 09:07:44 AM
He looks like a used-car salesman. I don't trust him.
I know, but why only used? Where do you think
new car salesmen trained?
^ LOL, you're quite right.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on December 08, 2012, 06:57:11 PM
Both, and all those suckers look like rows of gleaming teeth.
Y'arrrgh, methinx he's looking for more suckers.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/12/Nautilus.jpg)
And this week...
a bonus pic!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/12/babysquid.jpg)
Mollusc molesting crab plus a naked underage squid. Where have we come to? :mrgreen:
The little guy was in the Oct 29th bunch. I thought he looked familiar.
Cute little feller, though. Looks a little scared.
For a second I thought the nautilus was trying to eat a turtle!
Something is afoot!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/12/foot-500x365.jpg)
That would be a really cool sandal design.
Quote from: Opsa on December 21, 2012, 03:44:31 PM
That would be a really cool sandal design.
Yeah, but the guy only has 4 toes.
ZOMG, the octopus ate one of them!!!
In sad news, there appears to have been a beaching of squids in California (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57559548/the-mystery-of-jumbo-squid-mass-suicides/)last week.
Quote from: Opsa on December 23, 2012, 04:22:54 PM
In sad news, there appears to have been a beaching of squids in California (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57559548/the-mystery-of-jumbo-squid-mass-suicides/)last week.
Yes. Very sad. The squid invasion failed.
Brought to you courtesy of the Digital Cuttlefish...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/cuttlefish/files/2012/12/cuddly-e1356379672602-224x300.jpg)
Hey- that's neat! Is it a puppet?
Quote from: Opsa on December 26, 2012, 05:39:53 PM
Hey- that's neat! Is it a puppet?
I have no idea. Digital Cuttlefish just posted it as "I Want".
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/12/animals-octopus.jpg)
A proud new home-owner, I think.
(sorry the picture is so big)
What beautiful colors and textures in that photo. Nice one!
This isn't from PZ's blog Pharyngula, but from one of its brother blogs, The Ace of Clades. But I just had to pass it along.
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6925545216/h64F02F0E/)
It is a proud moment, indeed. Can he be our baby new year?
Quote from: Opsa on January 02, 2013, 02:52:04 PM
It is a proud moment, indeed. Can he be our baby new year?
Absolutely. We just need to digitally hang a "2013" (ack...choke...gasp) banner across his chest. (Do octopi have chests?)
Sunken chests, maybe. Or we could have him arrange his tentacles into a 2013.
Here is my candidate for the 2013 cephalopod baby...
(http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m260/aphos-the-mathematical/cephalopod_zpsd9933be8.jpg)
I hope this year is as pretty as that little octobaby for you, Aphos!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/01/smallsquid-500x312.jpg)
"Hey Buster! Get your finger outta my eye!"
Looks to me like the little guy has been gold-plated.
I think he's injecting his deadly venom into some poor sucker's finger.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on January 05, 2013, 06:34:03 PM
I think he's injecting his deadly venom into some poor sucker's finger.
Nonsense. They're just having a cuddle.
What species-ists you all are, assuming the finger is in the photo to provide scale to a mini-oct. How do we know that a full-size oct isn't inthe photo toprovide scale to the finger ... of a jyint!
:o
Yarooo!
Well, another Friday, another cephalopod.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/01/giantsquid.jpg)
A giant squid. You can see more here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1KN5N1QDaRQ
S/He looks like s/he's made of brushed nickel. Pretty!
Aaaaagghhh!
At the other end of the spectrum...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/01/babysquid2.jpg)
Cross a couple ones under that and you've got the makings for a very jolly roger!
What a smashing idear. Can you do it? It would make a foin flag for us.
Oh, please please please...
It would be cool if his crossbones were the same cool transparent pink as his skull.
I'll see what I can work up tonight. :)
[edit] how's this? [/edit] :yar:
"Jolly Squid" (who can tell about whether he's been ... "Rogered"?)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh27/pieces_o_nine/JollySquid_zps31ec2e0c.gif)
Rather cut-off :mrgreen: ;)
Ha! ...or "Jelly Roger". Hmm, that sounds naughty, too.
I love him. thanks, Pieces. You're amazing.
Could we turn him right-side up and squash it little so he's proportional to your typical jolly roger?
Brilliant, Pieces.
Yarr. That be excellent. Yarr.
:sportswoman: :sportsred: :sportsbrunette:
Oh for carp's sake! Here yh'arrrgh. ;)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh27/pieces_o_nine/JollySquid2_zps6e75d0b7.gif)
Yeah, I'm lookin' at you!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/01/eyes.jpg)
More hugs for Pieces! That looks wahsome! You could post him as our official flag somewhere here, maybe announcements?
Hey- that octopus would make a great evening gown for a very buxom lass!
I see what you mean. I wonder how big it is.
Offhand, I'd say that the buxom lass would have to be very big indeed. ;D
I don't think we can post it 'officially because it's not our photo.
But we can probably use it around the Monastery to warn of squidlings, the way others might post "beware of dog" signs. :)
As far as buxom squidly dresses go, don't you normally *not* want them looking in clearly different directions? ;)
Well, maybe slightly different directions, but definitely not at each other. ::)
That would be ... interesting. :o
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/01/giant_squid.jpg)
giant squid
Scary guy!
And a bit strange
He's a famous entertainer on the Deep Sea Circuit, caught doing one of his most popular impressions: (http://www.camelcitydispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nosferatu.jpg)
Yes, we have Nosferatu.
We have Nosferatu today.
But IMHO, they should have gotten a vampire squid to play the part.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/27/article-2209390-153C7714000005DC-480_634x436.jpg)
It's called casting against type, and it's all the rage these days... :)
I feel a little embarrassed looking up that vampire squid's vampire skirt.
To me it looks more like a spaceship from an old movie
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/02/tremoctopus.jpg)
Magic faerie squid!
Butterfly
I thought it might be for catching plankton, but another poster at Pharyngula said it was to scare off predators.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/02/flyingsquid-500x312.jpg)
Yes, indeed. Those squid are flying. Incredibly, those are called "flying squid".
I can't see why.
It's the Flying Squidendas!
What an adorable fleet in flight!
New Friday, New Cephalopod
(http://m3.i.pbase.com/o6/86/501586/1/75378443.sFT3hxnJ.cuttlefish05.jpg)
I've heard of sea cucumbers; today's cephalopod is like an aquatic horned melon (http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/270154/270154,1272217528,1/stock-photo-cucumis-metuliferus-exotic-fruit-kiwano-horned-melon-african-horned-cucumber-anguriya-51762190.jpg)!
Quote from: pieces o nine on February 16, 2013, 12:42:13 AM
I've heard of sea cucumbers; today's cephalopod is like an aquatic horned melon (http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/270154/270154,1272217528,1/stock-photo-cucumis-metuliferus-exotic-fruit-kiwano-horned-melon-african-horned-cucumber-anguriya-51762190.jpg)!
Cephalopods not only have amazing control of their color, but also of the texture of their skin. Their camouflage is incredible.
He looks like he's offering us two candy canes and two pieces of bacon. How hospitable!
One says, have the butler invite him and his catering staff -- poste-haste -- to the pic-a-nick over in Talk Like a Landlubber!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/02/octopus-holding-500x252.jpg)
OK, something a little different this week. Rather than a picture taken OF an octopus, this is a picture taken BY and octopus.
Seems a diver was filming an octopus when the beast stole his camera. Film below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x5DyBkYKqnM
Wonderful. I like how understanding the diver was, and how much he appreciated the octopus. I love the music, too.
For those of you who didn't watch the video, the picture is a really close up view of a sucker on the octopus's tentacle.
Thanks for posting this, Aphos -- very cool. :cthulhu:
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/03/chrom_irido_lg-500x350.jpg)
What is this? A closeup of chromatophores I believe.
Groovy, man! Looks like a 1960's light show. Jefferson Airplane should be performing in front of it.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/03/argonautbaby-500x399.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/03/youngkraken-500x707.jpg)
Now *there's* someone who loves his work! :)
Baby Kraken? ;D
Quote from: Aphos on March 09, 2013, 03:48:29 PM
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/03/argonautbaby-500x399.jpg)
Microscopic pizza face!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/03/montereybay.jpg)
Is she milking it? ;)
I thought it was some sort of cephalopodic midwifery.
Ah! Opsa found a polite way of saying what I was thinking. ;)
There we have it. Octopi tickle.
A squid menagerie...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/03/OegopsidTitleFin.jpg)
BTW...this lil guy is just so cute I couldn't pass up posting his picture...
(http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/8558526168_a0af7e0bef_o.jpg?w=560&h=421)
He isn't a cephalopod, but from a sister class of the phylum Mollusca, the nudibranchs.
I'd have taken that for a sea slug. But in that case it could have been quite dangerous to pick it up
That is really cute!
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 23, 2013, 01:28:19 AM
I'd have taken that for a sea slug. But in that case it could have been quite dangerous to pick it up
Sea slugs are yet another branch of mollusks. I gather that they and nudibranchs are closely related. They are both classed as marine gastropod mollusks.
I can't see which way round it is.
I think I met him once at a nudibranch beach. I never forget a ...whatever end I was looking at.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/03/pinksquid-500x312.jpg)
This picture accompanied an article from China about a squid that had swallowed a small bomb. What the picture has to do with the story, I don't know. Neither does PZ.
They all have paled in fearful anticipation :mrgreen:
I think it looks like one of Opsa's nudibranch beach conventions...
Nudibranch beaches are banned in my state.
Do all of the squids in your state have tan lines?
Quote from: Opsa on April 01, 2013, 10:10:45 PM
Do all of the squids in your state have tan lines?
Well, some of them use tanning beds.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/04/redoctopus.jpg)
This way it almost looks like a spider
Does that Cephalopod even lift?
To me, it looks like he is tagging the coral and saying, "You're It!"
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/04/krkn-500x266.png)
Special bonus Thursday Cephalopod!
Whoa- is it made of Legos?
very cool.
Quote from: Opsa on April 11, 2013, 09:21:58 PM
Special bonus Thursday Cephalopod!
Whoa- is it made of Legos?
Why, yes it is.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/04/thetouch1.jpg)
Paging Michelangelo
This must be a scene from "My Tentacles Too Short to Box with God"
^^ :thumbsup:
^ :thumbsup:
Quote from: Octi Wan KenobiThis is the weapon of a Cephalopod. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
The cuttlefish looks like he's really caught a whopper this time.
OMG...it's coming for us!!!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/04/octopus-moving-dry-land.gif)
Wow! That guy is really bookin'!
Oh sure, next they'll be claiming this as evidence of evolution...
:giggle:
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/04/socks.png)
I want a pair...just for the geek cred if nothing else.
Cool! Where did you find them?
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/04/cuttlepals-500x332.jpg)
Who's that ghostly pale on to the right?
Mr. Albino Cuttlefish?
Ice Ice Cephalopod, baby... :cthulhu:
Quote from: Opsa on April 22, 2013, 08:52:06 PM
Cool! Where did you find them?
BTW, the socks site is NSFW.
Nuff said.
Quote from: Opsa on April 26, 2013, 07:43:55 PM
Mr. Albino Cuttlefish?
More like Mrs. Cuttlefish, I believe.
Quote from: Aphos on April 27, 2013, 02:28:53 PM
Quote from: Opsa on April 22, 2013, 08:52:06 PM
Cool! Where did you find them?
BTW, the socks site is NSFW.
Nuff said.
Perhaps I'm too liberated but I don't think the site is really that NSFW, they show legs with socks on them, if that is NSFW... you can judge by yourself:
http://www.sockdreams.com/_pages/index.php
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 28, 2013, 04:47:13 AM
Quote from: Aphos on April 27, 2013, 02:28:53 PM
Quote from: Opsa on April 22, 2013, 08:52:06 PM
Cool! Where did you find them?
BTW, the socks site is NSFW.
Nuff said.
Perhaps I'm too liberated but I don't think the site is really that NSFW, they show legs with socks on them, if that is NSFW... you can judge by yourself:
http://www.sockdreams.com/_pages/index.php
The site PZ found the socks on sells lots of things euphemistically called "toys".
Nuff said...again.
Ah, I hears ya.
Lookee what just opened up in my neck of the woods!
^ groovy! :cthulhu:
Some people don't like it, but I think it's great. Plus, they sell soft serve ice cream! What's not to like?!
Quote from: Opsa on April 29, 2013, 10:10:17 PM
Some people don't like it, but I think it's great. Plus, they sell soft serve ice cream! What's not to like?!
Well of course some people don't like it. It's weird and different, and some people just can't deal with weird and different.
Looks pretty cool to me, though.
'Tis Friday, and that means...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/05/wonderpus.jpg)
Hey- that one's a beaut!
Squid doing the serpentine (or rather an octopus for those that do not include 8-armers in the squid category)
This is from Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True, rather than PZ's blog. It is a close relative of our little friend the blue ring octopus. This one is named, somewhat unoriginally, the greater blue ring octopus.
(http://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/octopus.jpg?w=470&h=295)
He's lovely!
Quote from: pieces o nine on May 04, 2013, 11:02:19 PM
He's lovely!
Yes, pretty little feller. But if he is anything like his smaller cousin...Don't Touch.
The CIA is everywhere...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/05/nautilus-with-transducer.png)
G'arrrgh! Tis a sea drone!
Why does it have a block of cheese and a soda can on its head? ;)
It's going to a picnic.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/05/cuttleone.jpg)
Quote from: Aphos on May 17, 2013, 04:22:59 PM
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/05/cuttleone.jpg)
It's adorable! It's the lamb of the cuttlefish.
Is it the white mammoth or the sabretooth squid?
It looks so depressed :(
I thought it looked rather contented. :)
Looks to me like he is doing his Dracula impersonation.
He'd be a good design for a bottle opener.
You mean you don't have your own personal squid bottle opener?
I'm so behind the times it's embarrassing.
More news of the cephalopod invasion...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/05/camouflage.gif)
Look! Down in the Sea! It's ... OctaStealth™!
It's interesting to see such an amazing little creature in action.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/05/floating-500x393.jpg)
La balle(ma)rina!
Good one, Swato!
What a grand old Octo it is.
And for my next feat, I shall slip the tablecloth back on the table!
It's our lethal little friend again...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/06/bluering-500x333.jpg)
Quote from: Aphos on June 07, 2013, 09:15:02 PM
It's our lethal little friend again...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/06/bluering-500x333.jpg)
Pretty little rascal!
Quote from: Opsa on June 07, 2013, 10:55:04 PM
Pretty little rascal!
Yes. Look but don't touch.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/06/ontheshell.jpg)
On the one hand that reminds me of the ridiculous Me-Ha monsters in The Sixth Continent, on the other of erotic paintings of famous Renaissance and Baroque artists (disguised under the cover of mythology).
Is that the Reclining Squid Venus by Tentaclian? Or the Venus Octopoda by Peter Paul Poulpe?
Squid on a Half Shell by Bottijelly
Ha! That's just what I thought too, but didn't get as clever as "Bottijelly"!
It also made me think of some movie where a couple gets married in Las Vegas by an Elvis Impersonator and the bride comes down the aisle in a clam shell. What movie was that?
^ No idea, but it sounds wonderfully weird. Maybe Swato will know?
Sorry, don't know that one.
For Father's Day...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/06/octopants.jpg)
Oooh -- I like those!
They would make nice jammy-bottoms.
Or lounging pants (when one has no intention of needing sweat pants). :)
Apparently, they cost $100 a pair.
^ * is gutted *
(http://www.octopusworlds.com/images/top_octopus_facts.jpg)
Sew what? I bet the fabric is cheaper, and suspect you may know how to make such things. ;)
This isn't actually cephalopodic, but reminds me of them:
(http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/06/Digital-Grotesque-1-537x357.jpg)
Follow link for more photos
Digital Grotesque: World's First Full-Size 3D-Printed Room to be Unveiled Next Month
(http://inhabitat.com/digital-grotesque-architecture-duo-set-to-unveil-entirely-3d-printed-room-next-month/)
Very Gigeresque....
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/06/Gonatus-fabricii.jpg)
and here is the video of him performing "The Squid Ballet".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RSRc1G45M48
I think you put in the wrong link. This one is to AronRa putting down Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis.
You're looking for this one
[youtube=425,350]j8zpGqV4XE4[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j8zpGqV4XE4
Cool squidly columns!
Here's a light-hearted one...
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UOPtvgBZYgI/TiJPNnQ7J1I/AAAAAAAABVM/u0RfgriJjHo/s1600/lego-polvo-hg-20110715.jpg)
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 21, 2013, 11:01:48 PM
I think you put in the wrong link. This one is to AronRa putting down Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis.
Oops. My bad.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/06/squidlarva.jpg)
The blue ghost bishop!
Ooh, I'm excited, we got our Friday Cephalopod all ready today!
Wow, she's gorgeous! I love the symmetrically flowing tentacles. What is she?
It's a Lava Lamp™ Cephalod! :cthulhu:
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/07/20130705-103632.jpg)
Iz hiding from you.
That is truly a marvelous octoportrait.
I was struck by the Eye of Sauron, my precioussssss...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/07/youngkraken.jpg)
"Start wearin' purple for me now...
all your sanity and wits they will all vanish, I promise,
it's just a matter of time."
-Gogol Bordello
Sorry, folks. PZ was busy running an online conference this weekend and I guess didn't have time to post his usual Friday Cephalopod. So I went and found my own picture for this week.
Meet, once again, our little buddy the iridescent cuttlefish, in one of the most spectacular displays I have seen.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_toYkQHuXpNE/TPVdzRulgoI/AAAAAAAAAAs/6IGtpXf18zY/s320/pic2.jpg)
Ah! I wondered where you were, Aphos.
This little guy is psychedelic!
Quote from: Opsa on July 22, 2013, 03:32:27 PM
Ah! I wondered where you were, Aphos.
This little guy is psychedelic!
I think he's been smoking illicit substances.
Ah. PZ posted this belated picture this morning.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/07/wonderpus2.jpg)
And the hits just keep on coming...
The Seas' Strangest Square Mile. It is not just about cephalopods, but there are plenty of them in this video, including our little buddy the iridescent cuttlefish.
http://vimeo.com/59168847
They are so cute, walking along on their little paws!
(I am using paws as Kenneth Grahame did in Wind in the Willows, when he described Mr. Toad's hand/flippers.)
The frog fish are interesting. They remind me of toad fish, but are in a different family. (I had to look that up to be sure.)
Thanks for the education!
Cool video of an octopus...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q5IxJ6MwSVQ
Very cool! he seems like the ghostly king of his domain. fascinating to watch him billow through the water.
Here's a documentary I found amazing:
[youtube=425,350]EAYcAEnq0vc[/youtube]
Drat, another video that get's blocked over here.
Will any of these links work, Swato?
The first was on YouTube, Alliant TV Network (http://www.youtube.com/user/AlliantContent) channel.
Pure Nature Specials (http://www.hulu.com/pure-nature) also has a Hulu channel.
Pure Nature Specials on Bing (http://www.bing.com/videos/browse/tv/show?tag=pure+nature+specials)
I get a 'US only' message there too.
Doesn't work in Canuckistan (original video) either. I don't understand why you give something free to a third of a billion people and block the rest. ???
It's call licensing and it's the way the b@$tard middle men of the media industry make their commissions. >:(
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/07/alienocto-500x333.jpg)
... MUST ... NOT ... LOOK ... INTO ... THE ... EYES ...
...too
.....late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...must...make...everyone...look...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/08/firefly_squid_swarm.jpg)
Squid as far as the eye can see...
...and eyes as far as the squid can see!
We will lose them in the octopod field...
(decapods actually)
Where's Wal-squid?
(http://assets.amuniversal.com/4f6ebe80b9de0130e3a2001dd8b71c47)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/08/inajar.jpg)
Caught after emptying the cookie jar
I hope that at least one of them made it out alive!
(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/08/flamboyant-500x264.jpg)
Gurrrl, I just love what you've done with your nails!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/08/babynautilus.jpg)
Lil' Naughty!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/08/octopus-arms.jpg)
Well, that one looks naughty.
That reminds me the big guy in the DC zoo.
I know, I know. A day late and a dollar short.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/09/kiss-500x230.jpg)
G'arrggh! He looks like King Tut's sarcophagus' face puking tentacles!
This week's Friday Cephalopod is a video rather than a picture...
[youtube=425,350]aoCzZHcwKxI[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aoCzZHcwKxI
WOW! That is astounding. Thanks, Aphos!
:cthulhu: very groovy, baby!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/09/diving-500x704.jpg)
COWSQUIDABUNGAAAA!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/09/bobtail.jpg)
Is that a chandelier or a Xmas decoration?
That would be a FANTASTIC chandelier! :cthulhu:
There are some fantastic cephalopod chandliers (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OW6wa7cAFBY/TURw3AATdzI/AAAAAAAAA7A/_pXuLWfXIEw/s400/adam-wallacavage-1.jpg) out there, but one with blue crystals hanging down would be fabulous. Makes me wish I worked in glass.
^ Those are quite nice, Opsa.
Aphos' picture link and those samples has me thinking; white wreaths are becoming fashionable and plentiful again. (Local hobby store is already jam-crammed full of xmas crappe.) Two modest white wreaths, cut into quarters and secured together at a 'head' (need to think more about best way to do that), then decorated with blue, violet, and silver ball ornaments in that sucker pattern, would be a pretty and amusing holiday ornament. Hung from the ceiling, it would pose far less temptation to Dom thee Danger Catte than any sort of tree.
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 27, 2013, 10:20:49 PM
Is that a chandelier or a Xmas decoration?
PZ and several of his commenters already expressed the opinion that they would like to have this as the star on their Xmas tree.
Clearly this unholy hybrid will eventual conquer the universe.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/09/cathulu.jpg)
You can just see the evil streaming from its eyes.
...must obey octopussycat!!!
Pieces, I love your ornament idea! If you do it, please post instructions or final photo in the crafts thread for us. And in this thread, naturally!
(http://s.theweathernetwork.com//thumb?src=//s.theweathernetwork.com/images/12/Cookie%20monster%20sponge-13818.jpg&w=690&scale=0&crop=0)
Ok, so this one's a sponge, but it's being dubbed 'Cookie Monster of the Sea'. :mrgreen:
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/10/tremoctopus.jpg)
Tremoctopus is a genus of pelagic cephalopods, containing four species that occupy surface to mid-waters in subtropical and tropical oceans. They are commonly known as blanket octopuses, in reference to the long transparent webs that connect the dorsal and dorsolateral arms of the adult females. The other arms are much shorter and lack webbing.
--Wikipedia
...and now Fatima will perform the dance of the seven veils!
To me that one looks totally artificial.
Wouldn't it make a fantastic Halloween costume, though?
This actually looks like a Bedouin who modified his headdress in a creative way. Make that a female Bedoiun given the slight protrusions at chest height :mrgreen:
Ha! I hadn't noticed those. It's like she has her hands on her rear hips.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/10/threatdisplay-500x342.jpg)
"Put up your dukes!"
"I'll take you with 6 arms tied behind my ... back!"
"Anyone else wanna say I look like mouldy butter? Huh? HUH?"
Sorry, no Friday Cephalopod yet. PZ is having technical difficulties. He is keeping a rescue kitten (despite PZ's avowed aversion to cats) until a good owner can be found, and said kitten destroyed his router.
But fear not, things should be back to normal next week. PZ is headed off to the Big City this weekend and plans to round up a new router while there.
Ah. PZ got the post up after all.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/10/cuttle.jpg)
grumpy gramps
squíd brûlée!
Quote from: Aphos on October 26, 2013, 03:41:04 AM
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/10/cuttle.jpg)
He has a jack-o-lantern in his eye!
Hey, you're right... Happy Cuttleween!
True Facts about the Cuttlefish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GDwOi7HpHtQ
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/11/bubblingcuttlefish.gif)
Raising baby cuttlefish.
It's our little Aussie friend again. He says, "Don't touch me."
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/11/bluering-500x285.jpg)
The baby cuttlefish look like they're saying "Wheeeeeee!"
This is brought to you by Jerry Coyne of Why Evolution Is True.
(http://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/0d75907b0d8898d80a5f595e7e076d36-the-bigfin-squid-is-a-real-deep-sea-creature-that-will-eat-your-dreams-513x1184.jpg?w=513)
This is a bigfin squid, a very strange, very deep sea specimen.
That looks like a puppet with the strings left hanging down.
Puppetmaster Squid!
And our old friend Vampyroteuthis...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/11/vampyroteuthis.jpg)
Is he upside-down, or is it just me?
One of PZ's readers sent him an early Squidmas present.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/12/pillow-500x601.jpg)
Wow!!! That's gorgeous! :o
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/12/octopuswitheggs-500x375.jpg)
NO PICTURES! Go away.
squidarazzi!
Indeed. It's very impolite to take pictures of an egg guarding female, you perv!
Very few of us look picturesque shortly after giving birth.
This is what PZ Myers posted on his blog today...
"I would normally just include the photo here, but the photographer has asked that we not download the images...so you're just going to have to click on this link to see it."
So I will follow suit and just post the link...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aquanerds/27324010/sizes/z/in/photostream/
It is a very pretty photo of several very colorful squid.
Aw, little purply-pink pod people!
Oooh, anaglyphic squid!
This week's Friday Cephalopod is a video on the feeding habits of our old friend the vampire squid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8oWnbcLI40&feature=player_embedded
Mmmmm... marine snow aggregates!!!
Yummy.
No, this is not a toy.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/12/snuggleupapus-500x375.jpg)
Awwwww... he looks as if he should make a squeaky noise, doesn't he?
Is it a Dumbo squid at rest?
It's not Friday, but PZ posted this today...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2013/12/chandelier.jpg)
Fabulous! Happy new year!
I think this picture got posted as an aside sometime back, but now it is an official Friday Cephalopod.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/01/long_arm_squid.jpg)
This guy is about 10 m (33 feet) long. He gets my vote for cthuloid of the month.
I think we have seen him before, but he is amazing.
A day late and a dollar short, but here it is...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/01/translucent-500x333.jpg)
More pictures can be seen here...
http://www.thefeaturedcreature.com/2013/09/rarely-seen-translucent-deep-sea-octopus-clearly-stunner.html
And here is a video of deep sea life, with the translucent octopus showing up around the 2 minute mark...
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/01/10/friday-cephalopod-i-can-see-your-insides/
At first I thought that was a photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope ;)
I spotted this cephalopod today online (see below).
Sorry. A little late.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/01/bracelet-500x332.jpg)
Wow! That fabulous beast beats her bling any day!
Quote from: Opsa on January 19, 2014, 03:53:48 PM
Wow! That fabulous beast beats her bling any day!
Now we just need to come out with a line of octopus bracelets. Made of plastic, not real octopi.
Oh! There's an octopus in the picture... ::)
Unlike MB ;D, do you think the Octo was attracted by the pattern on hr nails?
Quote from: Opsa on January 21, 2014, 04:10:21 PM
Unlike MB ;D, do you think the Octo was attracted by the pattern on hr nails?
All of the cephalopods display considerable curiosity.
I'm guessing it was the pattern... :mrgreen:
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/01/cirrothauma.jpg)
Burqa Ballerina?
That, or maybe the wind blew too hard at a Fellini shoot.
Looks like a diaphragm to me...
Ootch. That would certainly prevent something or other.
I did not want to bring the three letter word in here too ;)
It's Friday, and you know what that means...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/01/defender.jpg)
:woohoo:
Reminds me of the demon in Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain sequence.
Resistance is futile!!!
Holy seacow! Check out this outrageous(ly expensive*) cuttlefish bottle opener! (http://www.shapeways.com/model/1323431/cuttlefish-bottle-opener.html)
*not quite so pricey in the plastic form.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/02/octopet.jpg)
Only the boxing gloves are missing. That is a fighting stance :mrgreen:
I thought she was doing a flamenco dance.
Would she hold the rose in her beak or her siphon?
Warning! Cephalopod prawn! NSFW (if you are a cephalopod that is)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/02/hectocotylus.jpg)
Now that is one well endowed cephalopod!
(Picture is of a hectocotylus...the tentacle used to impregnate female cephalopods.)
Shah-wing!!!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/02/cuttlefish-500x290.jpg)
Awwww, what a cute lil' squirt.
Yeah, you can tell from how blurred the background it that this is taken with a macro lens and that the guy is very very small.
And he IS cute.
He's like a baby bird with it's little pink mouth open.
This week I present this distinguished looking fellow...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/02/sepia-officinalis.jpg)
Like a judge presiding
I like the Batman contact lenses.
HAH! Or they could be mustaches.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/03/squidward.jpg)
A water meerkat!
Good one, Zone! :D
It's so cute!
I know that different species of octopus do the walking thing in the Pacific after watching scuba divers, who knows, perhaps this one has been watching Meerkat Manor.
Maybe they're doing an all-cephalopod production of "The Lion King".
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/03/stubby.jpg)
HARUMPH!!!
That one somehow reminds me of the aliens in Quatermass and the Pit (just the colour is wrong)
A cephalopod thinker!
(http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/98/9848/984810.gif)
Kinda reminds me of an Ood.
Kinda raises the question: Does an octopus put his pants on one leg at a time?
Difficult since it belongs to the people wearing their pants on their heads ;)
Our iridescent buddy is back...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/03/flamboyantlypoisonous-500x333.jpg)
That one looks like an exotic orchid.
Quote from: Aggie on March 21, 2014, 06:03:02 PM
That one looks like an exotic orchid.
Orchids look like all sorts of things, some NSFW.
In Technicolor...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/03/bigfin.jpg)
Makes you wonder about their advertisement.
It's Friday, and you know what that means...
Here is a curious little fellow, and I emphasize "little"...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/04/tinyocto-500x409.jpg)
Don't erase him!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/04/zoom.jpg)
That is an awesome picture of an awesome octopus and I am in complete awe!
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 12, 2014, 02:40:49 PM
That is an awesome picture of an awesome octopus and I am in complete awe!
As you should be.
Bow before our cephalopod overlords.
Squid...In...Space...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/04/Japetella_diaphana.jpg)
Mars Attacks?
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/04/opisthoteuthis-500x332.jpeg)
A soon-to-be squidling...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/05/cuttlebaby.jpg)
(actually, a baby cuttlefish...)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/05/smallgif-dumbo-big.gif)
It MOVES!!!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/05/redpair-500x375.jpg)
Where's Waldo?
How many octopuses in the picture? ;)
<sigh>
Another Friday.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/05/ceph-vammouth.jpg)
Is that a vampyrotheutis infernalis lifting its skirt ot the new organic death star?
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/05/scariati-500x333.jpg)
He's coming for YOU!
NSFcephalopodW
Octopi making woo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aSvq7GdFwvY
Typical Vancouver exhibitionists.... ;D ::)
This week we have another video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dMM8jHuHXsY
Those shells look gigantic!! ;)
--
And the cameraman is being very inconsiderate, can't he see the octopus is uncomfortable with the light?
---
And what, no octopus predicting games for the worldcup? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on June 13, 2014, 04:08:08 PM
Those shells look gigantic!! ;)
--
And the cameraman is being very inconsiderate, can't he see the octopus is uncomfortable with the light?
---
And what, no octopus predicting games for the worldcup? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Have to leave that to the pandas. Octopi don't have feet, so they aren't big football fans.
Ask Paul the Octopus, he even got the Google Doodle today.
Cuttlefish football fans...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/06/cuttlepile-500x666.jpg)
They look incredibly cute.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on June 21, 2014, 05:16:09 AM
They look incredibly cute.
Maybe we should change the name from cuttlefish to cutelfish?
<don't hit me>
It depends, do you want a [liquor] shot or a card? ;)
This week's Friday Cephalopod is a video...
[youtube=425,350]G4U0vG2bxy0[/youtube]
And another video this week...
[youtube=425,350]tvkShkeQwsY[/youtube]
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/07/idiosepius-500x375.jpg)
Another video this week...
[youtube=425,350]HDab2mX5mXA[/youtube]
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/07/ballerina-500x333.jpg)
Reclining on the beach in a comfy chair? ;)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/08/social-octopus_sm.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/08/SquidEggCases.png)
Squid eggs.
This week PZ brings you...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/08/flyingsquid-500x436.jpg)
FLYING SQUID!!!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/08/octopus-500x331.jpg)
Big guy!
This week, a video...
[youtube=425,350]far3piBfV8E[/youtube]
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/09/cuttleegg.jpg)
2014 - A Space Squidyssey
FYI, this is a close-up of the tentacle of a colossal squid.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/09/cshook-500x333.jpg)
It's neither Friday nor PZ Myers but still fitting for this thread, I think.
(http://www.cakewrecks.com/storage/thumbnails/10710906-25352307-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1408754210931)
http://www.cakewrecks.com/storage/thumbnails/10710906-25352307-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1408754210931
And the latest picture looked like made from Belgian chocolate.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/09/ex1302-0523-octo-full-500x281.jpg)
Vying for the Pokemon league?
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/09/shadowsquid-500x368.jpg)
The squid is clearly allied to the Shadows.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/09/shadowship-500x293.jpg)
A squid with a fishing lure...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/10/grimalditeuthis.jpg)
And a video of the squid in action...
[youtube=425,350]boV-zXhWTAQ[/youtube]
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/10/dumbo.jpg)
And we have a video once again...
[youtube=425,350]zri36OD7-CY[/youtube]
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/10/squidlarva.jpg)
Ooooo...pretty.
Looks like blown glass.... is it a pipe? :mrgreen:
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/10/halloweensquid.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/11/squid640-500x500.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/11/octopus-2-tampa-500x375.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/11/ancient_cephalopods.jpg)
OK, a bit large, but then the ancient cephalopods shown were quite large.
Holy shells! Those are some monster creatures, especially considering they were hauling their homes around with them.
Something a little smaller and cuter:
(http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/55754vernonEleanorBassettKnittingWorkshop.jpg)
Happy Post Turkey Day. We get a picture AND a video.
[youtube=425,350]lFCQltYMLQk[/youtube]
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/11/octomom-ledge-450.jpg)
A cephalopod montage...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/12/ceph-montage-600-500x375.jpg)
This week, the glass squid...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/12/taonius.jpg)
Ommmmmm...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/12/contemplativecuttle-500x350.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/12/blueocto.jpg)
Oh, and it's a day late, but...Merry Squidmas!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2014/12/squidmaswreath-500x500.jpg)
Are those colors natural? Wow! :o
---
May The Great Old Ones eat your enemies for Squidmas! :D ;D :mrgreen: :cthulhu: :santa_grin: :YelSquidAnim:
Oh Cthulhu
[youtube=425,350]ZZAoLnn4LF0[/youtube]
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/01/vamp-mba-400.jpg)
Though it is hard to tell, this is our old friend the vampire squid.
Plus a bonus video...
[youtube=425,350]fqr-sx-6WuU[/youtube]
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/01/strike-500x332.jpg)
This week is a video of the elusive giant squid.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/01/23/friday-cephalopod-giant-squid-live-briefly/
The body looks quite long and the tentacles quite short in comparision to the common mental image.
Did he keep his [long] tentacles or perhaps he lost them while he was captured.
This week, another video. This time about squid in love.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/01/30/friday-cephalopod-big-government-wants-to-use-drones-to-probe-your-bedroom/
Also, there is an international science organization that is all about cephalopods.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/01/ciac.png)
NSFOW*
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/02/algaeoctos.png)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/02/octosex.png)
* Not Safe For Octopuses at Work
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/03/seachild-500x380.jpg)
I see a cuttlefish in a shining white mantle in my crystal ball, said the squypsy fortune teller
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/03/purpleocto.jpg)
Who has some beautiful suction cups?
Yes you do! Yes you do!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/03/flamboyantcuttlefishembryo-500x750.jpg)
BTW...this little developing embryo is one of our friends, the Flamboyant Cuttlefish.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/03/Nautilus1-500x281.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/04/tremoctopus.jpg)
And there's a video too...
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/04/03/friday-cephalopod-its-like-the-prettiest-gown-in-the-whole-ocean/
To me this looks like a high-speed photograph of a bullet with the clearly visible mach cone :mrgreen:
(S)he looks positively alien.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 06, 2015, 04:22:58 PM
(S)he looks positively alien.
A whole lotta time going back to our last common ancestor.
Have you taken a good look at Cambrian biota? Even the ones we evolved from appear downright alien.
What I find more amazing is that most quick adaptations happening currently can be traced back to the Cambrian adaptations, as is the turning on or off of genes what drives them, more than actual new mutations.
Jurassic Park will be done that way, just compare a cassowary with an oviraptor, for instance:
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/231/1/4/theoviraptor_and_the_cassowary_by_deathdragon111-d474qtg.jpg)
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/231/1/4/theoviraptor_and_the_cassowary_by_deathdragon111-d474qtg.jpg
Not to go too far away off topic this is the beak of a Humboldt squid, not that different from the one of a parrot or bird of pray:
(http://www.fossilsonline.com/images/SquidBeak04.jpg)
http://www.fossilsonline.com/images/SquidBeak04.jpg
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/04/octopuscamera.jpg)
Our little friend is back...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/04/vampire_squid1.jpg)
This week's Friday Cephalopod is a video...of a whole LOT of cephalopods.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/05/01/friday-cephalopod-i-just-want-to-jump-in-with-them/
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/06/amphioctopus-siamensis-500x629.jpg)
Someone is standing guard.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/06/Giant-Cuttlefish-500x362.jpg)
This is the giant cuttlefish. Not really all that giant. They grow to about 1/2 meter long (sans tentacles).
This one has just mated and is now dying.
Somehow it looks like the head of a (sad) elephant.
You would be sad if after all the anguish of finding a mate and finally having sex you start dying.
Well, better to get out when life is at its best ;)
Who would wish to be grandpa squid?
I'm not sure if this is known or not but something tells me the colossal squid doesn't die after mating, and chances would be they could have several generations growing behind them.
Is their life expectancy limited by their mating or do they grow just too large to get enough food and starve at age 5-6?
I guess they are not all victims of sperm whales.
Wiki says that it is believed that they have a slow metabolism and ambush their prey and no comment on lifespan. I remember watching a documentary where they suggested that they could potentially live up to 20 years but I suspect all is [hopefully informed] speculation.
I know that they just keep growing with time which is why I suspect they don't die after mating but I could be wrong on that as well.
I did a brief search and couldn't find much. From what little I know, I think all but a few cephalopod species die after reproducing. It seems their metabolism just shuts down.
This is from Jerry Coyne on Why Evolution Is True (WEIT), an article along with a video.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/the-worlds-most-adorable-octopus/
A recently discovered species of deep ocean octopus. Tiny little guy.
(https://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/opisthoteuthisd577-1-593x600.jpg?w=540&h=294)
The official PZ Myers Friday Cephalopod was the same video, BTW.
This week, another video. This time of cuttlefish.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/06/26/friday-cephalopod-love-is-like-a-rainbow/
Squidlings!!!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/07/lunulata-500x357.jpg)
Of the blue-ringed variety?
You can finally see the pods. ;)
Sure does look like blue ring.
And the baby octopus is the cutest!
Pretty, but don't touch.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/07/bluerings.jpg)
Beauty and the Poison
More squidlings.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/07/hatching.jpg)
Ouch. Hobbling along on an old computer. The hard drive in my main machine died.
Well, here's looking at you...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/07/paper-nautilus-eye-alexis-rosenfeld-500x322.jpg)
Not fully safe for work :mrgreen:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c6/a4/3a/c6a43a82ae1997f68fbc7dcf2af87a2f.jpg
The Squilldo
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/08/tonmocon.jpg)
A whole convention on cephalopods.
One of the meetings is...
"Cephalopod Neurogenomics: Insights into the evolution of complex brains"
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/08/pgo.jpg)
Two species of nautilus. The lower, fuzzy one is extremely rare.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/08/Allonautilus1-500x375.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/09/octopusinacan-500x335.jpg)
Canned octopus?
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/09/Octopus-Eye.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/09/octotemple-500x375.jpg)
(http://19mvmv3yn2qc2bdb912o1t2n.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/science/files/2015/04/octopus-Sample-collection-.jpg)
I *think* this is a cluster of octopuses (or is that octopi?).
This week another video...
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/09/25/friday-cephalopod-skin-2/
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/10/stripedoctopus-500x267.jpg)
Looks like a three-dimensional fractal
Nautilus on the rampage...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/10/nautilus-grabbing-crab-500x380.jpg)
Also...I need a set of these sheets...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/10/octobedding-500x501.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/10/argonaut-500x383.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/10/flamhatch-500x315.jpg)
Itty bitty flamboyant cuttlefish.
So tiny yet so pretty...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/10/flamboyantcuttlefishembryo-500x333.jpg)
Another flamboyant cuttlefish squidling.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/11/blanketocto-500x375.jpg)
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No! It's Superoctopus!
That is really odd looking!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/11/steinhartcuttles-500x365.jpg)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/11/octopus_crab.jpg)
An octopus has noms.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/12/wtf-500x334.jpg)
Ooooo...spooky!
Mars Attacks the Deep?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0-4JYPXPSrk
This week we have a video of a squadron of nautilus (nautili?) attacking a diver. Beware. The cephalopod domination is coming.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/12/red-500x625.jpg)
Rather technical today...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2016/01/cephstages-768x1133.jpg)
Developmental staging of Octopus bimaculoides. a Whole egg photomicrograph illustrates the egg stalk and the animal pole (asterisk) where the embryonic body forms. Extent of epiboly in this stage (st) 8 embryo is marked with arrowheads. b End on view of a stage 8 embryo with the egg capsule and yolk removed. In dark field illumination, the organ primordia are visible as ectodermal and mesodermal thickenings. The mantle anlage (m) is central, the prospective mouth (mo) at the top of the panel is anterior, and the arm bud pairs (1–4) are arrayed peripherally. The folds of the collar (co) and the prospective funnel (fo, ff) fall at intermediate positions. c–f The growth of the organ systems by stage 10 is illustrated in end on (c), anterior (d), posterior (e) and left side (f) views. g–m The shape of the adult octopus emerges at middle (g–l) and late (m) embryonic stages. Illustrated are anterior (g and j), posterior (h and k) and left side (i and l) views of stage 13 (g–i) and stage 18 (j–l) embryos, and an anterior view of a stage 19 embryo (m). n and o Anterior views of O. bimaculoides (n) and its brain (o) at hatching (stage 20). A, anterior view; ey, eye; fun, funnel; gil, gill; L, lateral view; olf, olfactory organ; opt, optic lobe; P, posterior view; pf, funnel pouch; st, statocyst; supes, supraesophageal mass. Scale bars: 1mm (a), 500 μm (b–o)
Shigeno et al. Zoological Letters (2015) 1:26
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2016/01/octopus_cyanea.jpeg)
That poor guy looks bored.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2016/01/prettysquid-768x769.jpg)
Like a piece of glass art :)
Ooooo...purty!
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2016/01/pinkoctopus-768x576.jpg)
Warning: Blue ringed octopus. Do not touch. (Don't even touch the screen. They are that poisonous. From Australia, of course.)
Did this one take a bath in custard with strawbwerry jam? ;)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2016/02/stripedpyjama.gif)
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2016/02/Larger-Pacific-Striped-Octopus-768x413.jpg)
Hm, a snail whose house got a serious do-over by a Mandelbrot fan? ;)
Squid in love.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2016/02/matingbobtail-768x768.jpg)
This is an expired example of the 3rd largest species of squid, the Robust Clubhook squid. About 4 m (13 ft) long.
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2016/02/clubhook-768x1024.jpg)
Newly discovered species...
(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2016/03/ghostopod.jpg)
I haz returned. And to celebrate, here is yesterday's Friday Cephalopod.
(https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/10/humboldt.jpg?w=600&ssl=1)
The sizable, and rather aggressive, Humboldt squid.
(https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/10/lesser_blue-lined_octopus.jpg?resize=768%2C672&ssl=1)
Yes it's tiny, but don't touch.
A wee squidling...
(https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/11/zooplankton.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
Our lil buddy, the vampire squid.
(https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/11/vampire-squid-nautilus.jpg?resize=768%2C494&ssl=1)
I've missed those guys.
(https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/11/toglory.jpg?w=500&ssl=1)
Humble Humbolt Squiddlies area feisty lot...they are a tad bitey in the open water!
http://www.squid-world.com/humboldt-squid/
(https://images.maritimeprofessional.com/images/storage/w800/humboldtsquid-a.jpg)
Hello DaveL - good ter see ye on bord. That be a mitey fyne picher.
(https://i1.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/12/colorful.jpg?w=736&ssl=1)
Not a Christmas tree ornament, though it would be a nice one.
Stunning!
(https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/12/fallingceph-zeroeye.jpg?resize=768%2C961&ssl=1)
Our little buddy is back.
(https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/12/flamboyant.jpg?w=500&ssl=1)
(https://i1.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/12/piggyback.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1)
Catching a ride.
A newly discovered species of octopus
(https://i1.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2017/12/frilledoctopus.jpg?w=750&ssl=1)
On the light side...
Save the endangered tree octopus.
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Look at this regal fellow.
(https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/01/octopurple.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1)
Gorgeous.
Scary and gorgeous.
Quote from: Aphos on January 02, 2018, 05:51:41 PM
On the light side...
Save the endangered tree octopus.
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
(https://i3.cpcache.com/merchandise/54_350x350_Front_Color-NA.png?region=%7B%22id%22:18137421,%22name%22:%22FrontCenter%22,%22width%22:23.0,%22height%22:35.0,%22orientation%22:2,%22crop_x%22:0.0,%22crop_y%22:0.0,%22crop_w%22:3450.0,%22crop_h%22:5250.0,%22scale%22:0.75,%22dpi%22:150,%22template%22:%7B%22id%22:18137421,%22params%22:%7B%7D%7D%7D)
Love it!
Somehow reminds me of this archaic mammal ;-)
http://www.christian-morgenstern.de/dcma/images/8/80/Rhinogradentia_T12.jpg
(https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/01/anemoneeatingsquid.jpg?w=564&ssl=1)
Ooh! That's a nice one.
This one isn't archaic at all:
(http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/mole.jpg)
http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/mole.jpg
(https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/01/mototi.jpg?w=600&ssl=1)
Very pretty, but don't touch. This little guy is closely related to the blue ring octopus (note the blue ring in the red patch just below the siphon). It is just about as poisonous as its cousin.
And a walker?
He's a pinstriped Squidly!
Here's looking at you.
(https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/02/cuttleeye.jpg?w=500&ssl=1)
Dubya?
:D
This week (sorry I'm late) was a video.
https://d21rhj7n383afu.cloudfront.net/washpost-production/Virginia_Aquarium/20180208/custom/5a7c7af7e4b01ea4ff644fff_custom/1518120851535_540_304_297190.mp4
Octopi making woo.
(https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/02/octopusmating.jpeg?w=662&ssl=1)
I'ts kinda messy.
(Sorry I'm late. Again.(
(https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/03/stubby.jpg?w=721&ssl=1)
(https://i1.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/05/coconutoctopus.jpg?w=600&ssl=1)
Who has a shiny house?
Sorry, have gone through a rough spell and couldn't post for quite a while. Things much better now.
Plus PZ has gotten into spiders lately, raising lots of little baby ones for some study he is doing, and hasn't posted much on cepalopods lately. But today, WOOT! A new posting.
(sorry, picture is part of a Facebook post and not sure how to show here, so here is PZ's post)
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/12/14/friday-cephalopod-theres-a-reason-vampire-squid-arent-usually-photographed-with-something-to-indicate-the-scale/
Dang...I always got the impression the little vampires were about a foot long. Wrong! Just a few inches.
It may reach a foot, max. Poor guy though.
This is art rather than a real octopus, but still impressive. This was cut from a single piece of paper.
(https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/12/octopus-kirie-by-Masayo-Fukuda-2.jpg?ssl=1)
Quote from: Aphos on December 29, 2018, 06:25:16 PM
This is art rather than a real octopus, but still impressive. This was cut from a single piece of paper.
(https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/12/octopus-kirie-by-Masayo-Fukuda-2.jpg?ssl=1)
That is amazing. I thought it was a piece of pretty good lace-work when I first saw it, but your explanation just makes me feel awe at the work involved.
https://youtu.be/949eYdEz3Es
Oh, NOZ! The cephalopod has escaped and will take over the world.
(https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2019/01/knowyourcephalopods.jpg?ssl=1)
These are from Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True rather than PZ's blog, but still good. I give you three pictures of the giant cuttlefish...
(https://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/01.jpg)
(https://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/02.jpg)
(https://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/03.jpg)
(sorry that the pictures of the giant cuttlefish are giant as well)
Unfortunately, it looks like PZ has stopped posting his Friday Cephalopod. Alas.
If he does make further posts in the future, I'll post here.
ZOMG -- PZ has posted a new Friday Cephalopod!
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/octopus-stampede-wales
Octopi are invading a beach in Wales. The conquest has begun.
https://youtu.be/RFzTXXLqeEE
Another video Friday Cephalopod.
https://youtu.be/XDdTuVUtdnI
I didn't realize that Alien was a documentary.
If that's for real, that girl is going to be traumatised.
A giant squid video...
https://youtu.be/Lqim34DvCrs
I cannot surmise why there is no video embed in this software. There was always a Youtube option, but it is missing.
PZ has gotten into studying spiders and only rarely posts about cephalopods now. But today there was a new post. Behold, a baby octopus.
(https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2019/09/octopusoctopus.jpg?ssl=1)
What a cute little guy.
Cuttlefish with 3D glasses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-1aszCeQ4U
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/400/cpsprodpb/3CFF/production/_110451651_cuttlefish-sg_trevor-wardill.jpg)
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/400/cpsprodpb/3CFF/production/_110451651_cuttlefish-sg_trevor-wardill.jpg
Cuttlefish possess more self-control than many of your co-primates.
https://www.livescience.com/cuttlefish-pass-marshmallow-test.html
Here is a Twitter post about the piglet squid...
https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1392461855449239557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1392461855449239557%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhyevolutionistrue.com%2F
Has Disney already tried to trademark it? (or to sue it for alleged infringement)
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/08/diamondsquid.jpeg)
Gorgeous.
Good news! PZ Myres is bringing back his weekly Friday Cephalopod. Woot!
So here is this week's, a glass octopus. Enjoy.
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/08/glassoctopus.jpeg)
As I mentioned last time, Friday Cephalopods is back and here is the latest pic.
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/09/squid2.jpeg)
So shiny...
:squidlings:
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/09/vampiresquid-1024x763.jpeg)
The vampire squid has returned.
Looks like it also put on a mask
LOL
The latest Friday Cephalopod.
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/09/babyinabubble-500x333.png)
The Inner Space Baby
Famous from the inexplicable ending of the Squidley Q-Brick movie. :mrgreen:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAOaAvXUUAgsNBn?format=jpg&name=900x900)
I know. I know. It's not Friday, and this isn't from PZ Myers. But I think it is an impressive pic, so I posted it.
This is kinda hard to make out, but it is a giant Pacific octopus being released into Puget Sound after being kept at a local marina for some time.
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/10/licoricefreed-500x375.jpeg)
This isn't from PZ, but is still an amazing cephalopod pic.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAilV1-UcAEGZ1G?format=jpg&name=900x900)
The second image looks more like a piece of art half-way between a fresco and a mosaic.
Lot's of Lil baby Cthulhus. :grin_big: :cthulhu: :grin_big:
This week's Friday Cephalopod...
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/10/baby-squid-3-annette-kirchgessner-500x374.jpeg)
Lovely.
And, according to some people, it is World Octopus Day.
https://www.checkiday.com/ce6b3706791ddab03c48d3a111161ab0/world-octopus-day
And lastly, though not from PZ, is a YouTube of an octopus and its amazing color changes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrc489USbM
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/10/bobtailsquid-500x358.jpeg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBci6_hXsAYid_0?format=jpg&name=small)
This is off of Twitter rather than from PZ. Still, an amazing picture.
Awwww...
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/11/Graneledone_640_logo-500x375.jpeg)
This week is a twofer...
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/11/blanketoctopus-500x333.jpeg)
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/11/blanketoctopus2-500x325.png)
This is called a blanket octopus. I wonder why?
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/11/bluesquid-500x657.jpeg)
horned/antlered squid? ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohZsX5-qAD0
A video this week. Go, little guy, go.
The cockatoo squid...
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/12/cockatoosquid-500x230.png)
Aptly named indeed
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/12/octopuseye-500x333.jpeg)
I'm looking at you.
A squidling!!!
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/12/squid-larva-500x500.jpg)
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2021/12/magnapinna-500x240.jpeg)
Looks like a spaceship. The Entersquid perhaps?
It's another Friday...
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/01/cuttley-500x333.jpeg)
This one somehow reminds me of an old-fashioned preacher on the pulpit.
Very rare video of a blanket octopus.
https://youtu.be/Wjvlphf9EJ0
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/01/humboldtsquid.jpeg)
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/01/haliphron.jpeg)
OK, this is a seven armed (!?!) octopus eating a jellyfish. Here is a video explaining.
https://youtu.be/CzU8CUXxLsA
The image displayed here looks like something out of fractal geometry.
(have yet to watch the video)
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/02/cutecephalopod.jpeg)
Too cute for words.
This week, SQUIDLINGS!
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/02/octopuseggs.jpeg)
The mosaic is coming to life! Iä tesserae! Iä (little) Cthulhu(s)!
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/02/octoheart.jpeg)
Squidladonnas of happiness? (OK it's not technically squids)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belladonna_of_Sadness
A day late, but here it is...
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/03/Ancistrocheirus-lesueurii.jpeg)
The business end of a squid.
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/03/bobtailsquid.jpeg)
Aw. Soooooooo cute.
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/03/euprymna.jpeg)
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/04/bobtailsquid.jpeg)
An (ex) giant squid.
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/04/giant-squid.jpg)
https://youtu.be/t_S_cN2re4g
This is 10 hours long, so a bit much. But you can skim through it and see a lot of amazing sea life. Also, it looks to me like it would make a very soothing background.
Argument between two octopi (octopuses?).
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/05/octobattle.jpeg)
Looks like a piece of art!
The glass octopus (Youtube video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tVH5MkJZ8
Octopuses (octopi?) making woo.
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/05/lpso-mating.jpeg)
For a moment I mistook it for a fractal image.
Does it feed on Mandelbrot?
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/06/Galiteuthis_wallpaper.jpeg)
A glass squid.
An aquatic unicorn?
(https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2022/06/octodance.jpeg)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1640784622756700166
From Twitter, a video of flamboyant cuttlefish. How lovely...if extremely poisonous.
This isn't from PZ, but is still a beautiful video of a dumbo octopus.
https://youtu.be/5pcbPy2NxSc (https://youtu.be/5pcbPy2NxSc)
14 foot squid (reduced size image).png
This one looks like a rather depressed guy wearing a mask. [not a human guy in a costume, just to be clear]
Any idea whether this is genuine?
Dunno if its legit but it looks like it.