Cephalopod warning: soon, they’ll be everywhere

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   captainchaos

   7 December 2011 at 7:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   So can they actually breathe out of the water?

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   littlejohn

   7 December 2011 at 7:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That looks like the thing I blew out of my nose this morning. Excapt mine didn’t move. Wait a minute…

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   shouldbeworking

   7 December 2011 at 7:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Until it can climb over the Rockie Mountains, crawl, slither or whatever, through the snow, survive an Alberta winter, and then defeat the ferocious guard cat my daughter calls Fluffy, I’m not gonna worry (much).

   How fast can it move across land?

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   julietdefarge

   7 December 2011 at 7:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   What should I do if I encounter such a beastie out of water? I worry that it would be easy prey on the beach.

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   =8)-DX

   7 December 2011 at 7:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Just a note, the two video recommendations shown at the end of the video were about eating baby octupusses. I think that pretty easily debunks all this invasion nonsense – we are after all at the top of the food chain.

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   shouldbeworking

   7 December 2011 at 7:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Yes we are at the top of the food chain, but we’re not alone. Polar bears, tigers, sharks and mosquitoes all consider us food sources.

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   Tethys

   7 December 2011 at 7:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I watched the video and was all squeee its so cute! Then I stupidly clicked on the related Octopus and soy sauce video that came up after the OP video ended. Arrgh! It adds a whole new unwanted dimension to the phrase “Don’t play with your food”.
   *shudder*

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   shouldbeworking

   7 December 2011 at 7:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   PZ’s Golden Rule: eat them before they eat you!

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   Gregory Greenwood

   7 December 2011 at 8:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I for one welcome our adorable tentacled overlords…

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    chigau (違う)

    7 December 2011 at 8:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    There is no such place as “top of the food chain”.

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    Zinc Avenger

    7 December 2011 at 10:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    First the sea. Then the land.

    Begin phase III:

    The air.

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    Glen Davidson

    7 December 2011 at 11:26 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Baby’s first steps are always so adorable.

    Now to climb the Empire State Building on all eightses.

    Glen Davidson

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    grahameward

    7 December 2011 at 11:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I hope for the sake of that guy that this wasn’t filmed in Australia.

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    DLC

    7 December 2011 at 3:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Ghost of Steve Irwin: “Crikey! he’ll latch on with his tentacles, slam down with the beak and you’ll bleed out in seconds! . . . “

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    wormman

    7 December 2011 at 3:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    My first thought was “That’s exactly what people tend to do just as the tetrodotoxin kicks in”. The beauty of it is that the neurotoxic properties mean you don’t even feel the bite.

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    walkingmap

    7 December 2011 at 5:35 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    A suggested video for the “Endless Thread”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0mUu31VH6U&feature=colike

    Forgive me I have yet to learn HTML, but old fashioned cut and paste works

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    walkingmap

    7 December 2011 at 5:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Oh it worked as a link DOH!

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    andyo

    7 December 2011 at 8:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Yes we are at the top of the food chain, but we’re not alone. Polar bears, tigers, sharks and mosquitoes all consider us food sources.

    Sure, but we are hard at work fixing 3 of those problems.

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    Troy Britain

    7 December 2011 at 9:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    “Oh, look at the pretty blue circles it has on its skin… Ack! [Collapses to ground]

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    sneakdograpist

    8 December 2011 at 2:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    how long would an occy like that have out of the water, and what does a gasping octopus look like?

    Also, speaking of of not feeling the tetradoxin … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLPXpluXnFE&feature=related