Another day, another Hawaiian bobtail squid photo shoot
(Sarah McAnulty, Nyholm lab 2017)
Here you go: A giant squid with the creepiest fucking arms ever caught on video on an undersea oil rig.
That isn’t a giant squid; it’s a bigfin squid! And that’s actually way, way cooler!
Because! Bigfin Squid are really rarely seen past the juvenile stage. And, because we’ve never actually sampled an adult and they look radically different from the juvenile stage, we don’t really have a definitive idea of what this thing even is. We only think it’s an adult bigfin. And that’s cool as hell ‘cause it looks like an alien.
But the juveniles look like this:
Look at its little tenta-nubbins!
And I’d never seen a gif of the video or the video itself; I’d only seen this still of it:
So you just made my freakin’ day.
God fuck you fuck you fuck awful no shit god bag every time I see creepy marine life I have to make sure I still have toes and I will not let them leave my sight for the next 45 minutes fuck you fuck.
isn’t nature fun
please stop bullying this good friend with good arms for give good hugs at a distance.
Source: fencehopping
My headlamp was the mother goose for a batch of my little squidlets today
Sepietta oweniana A Bobtail squid (Sepietta oweniana) photographed at Vigtil, Frosta, Norway. by joakim_boneng
Source: anescapismartist
Cephalopods are quick-change artists. Like a living LCD screen, their skin can flicker and flash, or create complex patterns for camouflage and communication. Layers of specialized skin cells interact to match the environment’s color and texture.
You can see the largest, most diverse living exhibit of cephalopods ever created in our special exhibition Tentacles: The Astounding Lives of Octopuses, Squid and Cuttlefishes.
(via fuckyeahoctopus)
Source: montereybayaquarium
Sometimes you gotta remind your squid that’s he’s a squid and everything is gonna be ok
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くコ:彡I know I’m following the right people when I see this kinda stuff on my dash
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