Friday Cephalopod: I’m so tired of cute

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   feedmybrain

   13 July 2012 at 8:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I clicked on the pic in the hope of an enlarged image, some reference as to the size or more info but I didn’t get what I was after…
   Why are all the specimens next to little bottles?

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   Glen Davidson

   13 July 2012 at 9:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Looks, um, sleek, fresh, and plasticky. Thrashing a little, is all.

   Gets what it wants, I’ll wager.

   Glen Davidson

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   Trebuchet

   13 July 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Looks dead to me. If I’m going to be up close and personal with one of those, that’s the way I’d prefer it.

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   dysomniak, darwinian socialist

   13 July 2012 at 10:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Hard to get a sense of scale but I’m guessing at least a meter long? It seems somehow… dignified.

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   PZ Myers

   13 July 2012 at 10:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   A little bigger. That’s Architeuthis.

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   Brownian

   13 July 2012 at 10:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Why are all the specimens next to little bottles?

   Visual indicator of size, I suspect. If you look at pictures of rocks and geology features, you’ll see little rulers, rock hammers, pens, keys, glasses: whatever the photographer has available to give a sense of size.

   The Architeuthis photo doesn’t have one and as dysomniak pointed out, it’s hard to get the scale.

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   feedmybrain

   13 July 2012 at 10:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Thanks for the answers!

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   dysomniak, darwinian socialist

   13 July 2012 at 2:48 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I had a feeling I was undershooting it.