Down in the sea, it’s calm and restful as the octopus drifts by.
Of course, they also mention in passing that they’d previously seen one of these getting shredded by a predator, but we’ll just pretend that didn’t happen.
Jean Baptiste Vérany was a man who truly appreciated the beauty of cephalopods. He created a book of chromatolithographs of Mediterranean octopuses in 1851, containing art that is now in the public domain. Go browse!
A kaiju was observed off the coast of Japan — a giant squid just idling offshore (no mass destruction occurred).
It looks like a distressed, lethargic animal, so even if it felt like rampaging I don’t think it could do it. Poor beast.
Don’t just bolt it down! Chew it until there’s no doubting it’s dead. Especially if it’s an octopus.
Stephens says that the 4.6-pound cephalopod appeared to have grabbed onto Gilligan’s larynx with a tentacle, preventing it from reconnecting to the dolphin’s breathing apparatus and effectively suffocating him to death.
“That octopus might have been, in theory, dead, but the sucker was still functional,” Stephens says, adding that while nobody wins in a situation like this, “the octopus gets a bit of a last hurrah.”
What a horrible way to go — not only choking to death, but getting your post mortem photo plastered on websites as an example of gluttony. Or being murdered by a mammal, and having your arms shown dangling from its mouth.
I might have to be a bit less lithe than that show-off, though.
It’s the hot new parenting fad: glue all your babies to your cape and carry them with you everywhere.
Pelagic parenting 101 🦑📚
Some deep-sea squids, like Bathyteuthis berryi, store and brood hundreds of thousands of fertilized eggs in specialized egg sacs, guarding their young and protecting them for up to nine months until they hatch.Learn more: https://t.co/3HBZWKtPvq pic.twitter.com/NRNwAxrd1w
— MBARI (@MBARI_News) July 30, 2021
Stylish and practical!
Definitely should have a featured role in a Bladerunner movie.
It’s bad enough that Uncle Elmer is going to be bellowing his ugly opinions all evening, so don’t add this fellow who is so transparent that you can see his digestive gland churning away.
Really. The way he grips that poor Humboldt squid deserved a few chomps.
