This one is for those blood-thirsty free-riding sprogs.
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Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Friday Cephalopod: Chordates beware!
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Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Nice shot.
I love this site,especially friday cephalopods. I took a few courses in invertebrate paleontology 15 years ago and this has served to re-awaken my interest. These guys are so cool-and geeky!
Love seeing these examples. Gould wrote a bit about the way these encounters put the lie to the notion that evolution is inherently progressive, with vertebrates a “higher form” of life.
Other examples included helgramites consuming frogs, and mantids and spiders capturing birds.
Not to mention blobs swallowing entire towns and those lovable tribbles.
What, those weren’t real?
Wow, great action shot. That fish has simply been engulfed.
Cool.
forgot to add this one:
http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/cone/envenom.html
one of my favs.
Did that used to be an electric blue damselfish?
The bloodthirsty sprogs heartily approve this post. And, they said to tell you, “ARRRR!”