Weep with me.

You know, the rotten little crunchy, jointed thing wouldn’t have stood a chance if he’d been fighting within his own weight-class. I found this video on a blog called Arthropoda — a clearly biased advocacy site for violence on molluscs by the world’s dominant, bullying metazoans.

Here’s what happens when the odds aren’t stacked against the cephalopod.

Although…notice the bit near the end where the narrator refers to “a mere invertebrate”? I think that guy at Arthropoda and I would team up to thump him for that.

For some reason, Grimpoteuthis always makes me think of Wimpy.

(via Frozenly, which also has a number of other photos of weird creatures found in the Mariana Trench)