Friday Cephalopod: 2400 meters down

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   foodmetaphors

   6 January 2012 at 8:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Can’t wait to see get rule thirty-foured.

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   foodmetaphors

   6 January 2012 at 8:08 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   And that’s what I get for not using the Preview button. (relurks)

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   pj

   6 January 2012 at 8:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   A lovely translucent colour and graceful shape. I don’t know…somehow it seems wrong that a cephalopod should look like something out of Neuschwanstein.

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   Glen Davidson

   6 January 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Reminds me of the IDiots.

   Suckers!

   Glen Davidson

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   saguhh00

   6 January 2012 at 9:00 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   PRAISE THE LORD CTHULHU!!

   His prophecy is being fullfilled as described in the Pnakotic fragments!

   “I, the Great Cthulhu, exalted among the Old Ones, shall make a messenger in the likeness of the cephalod, translucent and white as if a jellyfish from the depths.”

   CTHULHU IS COMING!!

   PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!

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   The Lorax

   6 January 2012 at 9:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I saw that one already, it’s so cute! It looks like it’s looking up into the camera and wondering what it is. Ah~ I want to snuggle it!

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   Zinc Avenger

   6 January 2012 at 9:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   He’s a happy looking little chap/she’s a happy looking little… chapette?

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   Rey Fox

   6 January 2012 at 9:27 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   You got scooped by Craig Ferguson on this one.

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   Aquaria

   6 January 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   After all the talk about pink, this choice is rather ironic.

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    marlorocci

    6 January 2012 at 10:08 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    The bottom of the ocean appears to be “whites only”. The ocean is racist!

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    mattschickele

    6 January 2012 at 10:08 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Sci-Am has some details on this little fella. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2012/01/05/why-is-the-new-deep-sea-antarctic-octopus-so-pale/

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    cicely, Disturber of the Peas

    6 January 2012 at 10:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It looks so wide-eyed and innocent. And cute.
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    cicely, Disturber of the Peas

    6 January 2012 at 10:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    In the darkness of the Greater Deeps, no one see your camouflage.
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    cicely, Disturber of the Peas

    6 January 2012 at 10:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    can see….

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    Jamie

    6 January 2012 at 11:26 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It’s so cute! The way its tentacles are positioned makes it look like it’s hiding something under it or that it’s just nonchalantly watching the human with the camera.

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    Foolish-Rain

    6 January 2012 at 11:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Wow! Beauty and brains.

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    ogremeister

    6 January 2012 at 11:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Come closer…closer…just a little bit more……

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    grumpypathdoc

    6 January 2012 at 3:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    pj @#3

    Your reference to Neuschwanstein is a bit too cryptic for me. What does a pale, yet beautiful cephalapod have to do with “Mad” King Ludwig II. The slightly “crazy” eyes, maybe.

    Please elaborate.

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    grumpypathdoc

    6 January 2012 at 3:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Jamie @ #15

    I think the photographer interrupted a deep sea poker game. The other players split and this little fella got left behind.

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    Irene Delse

    6 January 2012 at 4:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    “Paparazzi, even in the abyss? Where must I go to keep private my pale prettiness?”

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    thunderbird5

    6 January 2012 at 7:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Hai Sweetie!

    (Pours a saucer of milk)

    Meanwhile @18 – I would say the ref to Neuschwanstein might be to those scalloped tentacled thingies popping out all over the shop which are looking somewhat like Ludvig’s Wagneresque towers n’ turrets job.

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    Glen Davidson

    6 January 2012 at 8:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    RNA editing in response to environment, in Octopus vulgaris

    Interesting stuff, I think.

    Glen Davidson

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    pj

    7 January 2012 at 8:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    pj elaborates:

    The octopretty looks like it wouldn’t be out of place in Ludwig’s quintessential fairy-tale castle that has inspired all the further manifestations of fairy-taleness, including those in Disneyland(s). And that’s not something I’d expect from Cthulhu’s younger sibling. Where’s the menace? Where’s the awe? That up there is a princessy octopus.