Friday Cephalopod: It's got freckles!
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: March 21, 2008 6:00 AM, by PZ Myers
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Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Only 3 hours of sleep, PZ?
Posted by: gracchus | March 21, 2008 6:13 AM
He's probably getting breakfast ready for Dawkins.
Posted by: philos | March 21, 2008 6:45 AM
Yeah, yeah, cute and freckled. But did it get into the movie?
Posted by: Milo Johnson | March 21, 2008 6:53 AM
Awww, it looks like ME! :) (very cute, btw)
Posted by: Tracy | March 21, 2008 6:55 AM
Adorable. ^_^
Posted by: AdamT | March 21, 2008 7:29 AM
Blogs run on computers.
Computers do things automatically.
This was posted at 06:00
I infer this was set up before PZ went to Minneapolis.
Posted by: Zarquon | March 21, 2008 7:35 AM
Not only does the chappie or gal have freckles, but it appears to be a redhead.
Like myself when I was at school.
Posted by: ramases | March 21, 2008 7:46 AM
Awwwwwwww! (But not as cute as the dicyemid mesozoan.)
Posted by: Vegan Atheist | March 21, 2008 8:57 AM
I feel I should lower my voice so I don't wake it. It looks like it's sleeping. Do cephalopods sleep? I find it hard to imagine.
Posted by: Kell | March 21, 2008 9:01 AM
Well, this critter's no sea cucumber or mollusk, but it's okay I guess--for a Cephalopod...
Posted by: Sheril R. Kirshenbaum | March 21, 2008 9:05 AM
Opie.
I shall call it Opie.
Can I keep it? huh? Can I?
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | March 21, 2008 9:50 AM
Aww, looks like a sleepy little fella.
Posted by: SeanH | March 21, 2008 9:51 AM
awwww... he/she is so cutttte(l)
Have you been cheating on your wife you godless octopi fanatic?
Posted by: Kevin | March 21, 2008 10:32 AM
Is this the same sweetie who's on the cover of my new freshman biology textbook (Scott Freeman's Biological Science)?
Posted by: Rosie Redfield | March 21, 2008 11:00 AM
So, that's the equivalent of an aquatic ginger kid?
Creepy
Posted by: Michelle | March 21, 2008 11:15 AM
(.)(.)
Posted by: wÒÓ† | March 21, 2008 11:31 AM
Just goes to show you...
There's a sucker born every minute.
Posted by: Stuart Weinstein | March 21, 2008 11:55 AM
Makes me want to go out and get one for a pet, but of course I wouldn't really do any such thing.
The stunning beauty of the natural world is ours to behold, and I thank PZ for bringing this little snapshot of it into our lives. Freckles and all.
Posted by: Forrest Prince | March 21, 2008 2:20 PM
If God doesn't exist, who stole my jelly babies?
Posted by: Alan | March 21, 2008 2:28 PM
That really is the cutest little thing! My goodness! I'm often awed by the diverse beauty of marine life, but I think this is the first 'pod I've ever just wanted to hug while simultaneously saying, "Isn't you the cootest widdle sea cweeture in the whole wide world, yes you is!"
Posted by: Candy | March 21, 2008 2:59 PM
That's a pretty cool photo. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted by: K T Cat | March 21, 2008 4:16 PM
ARRRRGH WHAT IS THE THING WITH THE WEIRDO POSTING THE BOOBIES EVERY... @#(#%#@(@#%... DAY??? BOOBIES BOOBIES BOOBIES BOOBIES!!! ARRRRRRRRGH!
I think that a lot of it is that the photo is so close-up, but that guy looks like he's got WAY too many arms for one octopus.
Posted by: mjfgates | March 21, 2008 7:14 PM
You got a problem with boobies?
Posted by: Rey Fox | March 22, 2008 1:38 AM
I shall call him "Squishy", and he will be my squishie...
(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)
Posted by: DebbieS | March 22, 2008 1:39 AM
Whyz that guy with the big chin eating a cannelloni?
Posted by: Jim | March 22, 2008 3:11 AM
DebbieS you beat me to it, lol...
Posted by: bama_girl | March 22, 2008 3:59 AM
Just more proof that cephalopods are the chosen ones of out lord and master Cthulhu. They look too damn good to be mortal.
Posted by: Nicki | March 22, 2008 4:54 PM
I would have said "handsome" rather than "cute," but then I have rather odd tastes. Thanks for this, PZ, especially with everything else going on right now.
Posted by: weemaryanne | March 22, 2008 5:51 PM