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Fernando Magyar says 20 October 2006 at 7:25 am Wow, that’s so awe inspiring I could almost pray to it! Though I think I noticed a few defective cromatophores maybe you should send it back to the manufacturer, er designer…
nat says 20 October 2006 at 8:02 am I suppose I can see an eye, but I do not understand the rest of this… thing. Was it submitted to some kind of… compression ?
Snail says 20 October 2006 at 8:17 am Nat, the arms are folded back over the shell-like egg case. You can glimpse part of the white wall of the case behind the eye.
David Harmon says 20 October 2006 at 8:18 am “I do not understand the rest of this… thing.” Seems you’re not alone… e.g., it really is an octopus, but the egg case looks a lot like a nautilus shell. More about it at The Cephalopod Page: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tcp/Argo.html
Stanton says 20 October 2006 at 10:59 am Wowzers! A mother argonaut! Do the females die after the eggs hatch, like other octopi?
Funky.
Wow, that’s so awe inspiring I could almost pray to it!
Though I think I noticed a few defective cromatophores maybe you should send it back to the manufacturer, er designer…
I suppose I can see an eye, but I do not understand the rest of this… thing. Was it submitted to some kind of… compression ?
Nat, the arms are folded back over the shell-like egg case. You can glimpse part of the white wall of the case behind the eye.
“I do not understand the rest of this… thing.”
Seems you’re not alone… e.g., it really is an octopus, but the egg case looks a lot like a nautilus shell. More about it at The Cephalopod Page:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tcp/Argo.html
That would make a great head for a movie alien.
I misread the caption as “argonauta medusa” the first time.
Wowzers!
A mother argonaut!
Do the females die after the eggs hatch, like other octopi?