Friday Cephalopod: I was going to bring back some jewelry for my wife…

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   Glen Davidson

   1 June 2012 at 7:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Self-attaching jewelry, no less.

   Glen Davidson

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   cicely. Just cicely.

   1 June 2012 at 7:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Kind of a cloisonné look.
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   Cuttlefish

   1 June 2012 at 8:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I love that I knew the Latin for this beauty without looking.

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   Markita Lynda—damn climate change!

   1 June 2012 at 8:58 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Silver and rubies! What could be nicer?

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   Crudely Wrott

   1 June 2012 at 10:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Follow the NatGeo link and check out the “glass squid” shown in the nest pic of the series.

   I has a face!

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   John Phillips, FCD

   2 June 2012 at 1:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   A Faberge cephalopod.

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   Ariaflame, BSc, BF, PhD

   2 June 2012 at 2:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I’ve got a glass pendant that has similar colouring.

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   earwig

   2 June 2012 at 4:28 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Thought you’d like this cactus squid, PZ

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   Rumtopf

   2 June 2012 at 7:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Aww, it’s pretending to be a cheese grater C:

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    ralfmuschall

    2 June 2012 at 9:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Won’t your wife be angry if you bring her used jewelry from August 2010?
    http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/13/friday-cephalopod-jewel-of-the-1/

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    MG Myers

    2 June 2012 at 11:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    According to the Ocean Portal, the “jewels” on Histioteuthis bonnellii are even bioluminescent!

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    cybercmdr

    3 June 2012 at 11:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Obviously dressed up for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee!