Uroteuthis chinensis
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Find out more about the Ghost Orchid.
(Mary bobs a curtsy to SEF for finding this one)
I’m home at last, after about 48 hours of airports and airplanes and long drives. I haven’t slept at all except for these peculiar intermittent blackouts, I’m flat-out exhausted, I’ve got this +5 Flaming Rod of Lancing Agony in place of a spine, and the Trophy Wife™ (who is at work, so I haven’t even seen her yet) sends me an email with this picture, suggesting that it hints where I ought to go next.
I guess she didn’t mind my absence that much.
So maybe you need a fix of the real thing?
We don’t have a good name for this abomination. It’s not bestiality, since it is cross-phylum, cross-kingdom lasciviousness.
Although, I do have to admit…that is one smokin’ hot orchid.
