Last year, the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium caught a paper nautilus that survived long enough to lay a few tens of thousands of hatchlings.
It must be nice to be a member of a species that’s beautiful at every stage of life, rather than none.
Mar 08 2013
Friday Cephalopod: Fecund & Flashy
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JohnnieCanuck
8 March 2013 at 5:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Some kid sure get to do cool tricks with their skin cells. Colour me jealous.
julial
8 March 2013 at 8:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I jealous of anything that can dynamically reconfigure their tattoos by sheer will power.
All I can ever do is look more or less pink.
ChasCPeterson
8 March 2013 at 9:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Argonauts! awesome.
The Calrillo Marine Museum is also awesome. I taught Vertebrate Biology at UCLA once upon a time and we used to do a field trip down there for the grunion run. Totally cool place.
ChasCPeterson
8 March 2013 at 9:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
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Brian Gygi
9 March 2013 at 3:28 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Those are beautiful, but I’m puzzled why you think it would be “nice” to be such a creature. I hate to get all relativist on you, but being beautiful to humans does not change how these creatures think of each other or themselves – every species probably thinks their type is beautiful. And does being beautiful to humans mean they are treated any better by humans – sadly the evidence seems to indicate the opposite…
Gvlgeologist, FCD
9 March 2013 at 4:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
They all died. Now I haz sadness.
They are all gorgeous, and I hope humans don’t figure out a way to destroy them.
On further reflection, I’ll add: even for organisms that aren’t that beautiful, I hope humans don’t figure out a way to destroy them (certain infectious organisms and parasites excepted).