Friday Cephalopod: Pearlescent!

September 30th, 2011 by PZ Myers

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Posted in Cephalopods, Organisms | 10 comments

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  1. AussieMike:

    September 30th, 2011 at 11:36 am

    Looks like a sex toy.
    …I mean wow what a pretty creature.

  2. lofty:

    September 30th, 2011 at 11:45 am

    Is that the fabled sniny squid? Cool!

  3. StevoR:

    September 30th, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    Opalescent? Iridescent? Translucent?

    Beautiful for sure anyhow! Thanks.

  4. johnm55:

    September 30th, 2011 at 3:12 pm

    It would make a good pike lure

  5. Dhorvath, OM:

    September 30th, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    So green! What a lovely fade, makes me want to swim forever. What? Squid? There is an animal in this photo? I miss out again.

  6. LRA:

    September 30th, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    Oooh! So pretty! :D

    (Like other primates, I like shiny things!)

  7. Glen Davidson:

    September 30th, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    Looks like a magnificent, glistening slug.

    Or anyway, slug dreams probably have them doing heroic deeds looking like that.

    Glen Davidson

  8. Monado, FCD:

    September 30th, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    The wedding squid!

  9. Monado, FCD:

    September 30th, 2011 at 4:36 pm

    The silver ghost?

  10. Patrick Smythe, Calm No More:

    September 30th, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    Reminiscent of this piece of Australian technology – a silvery rocket car IN THE SHAPE OF A SQUID designed to break the land speed record.

    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/for-the-record-its-rocket-science-on-a-salt-pan-20110930-1l1j8.html

    RMIT is a most reputable engineering/aerospace university, so there must be something vaguely legitimate about this.