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  1. Quiet_Desperation says

    Damn! I better get my Halloween shopping started!

    Anyone know if any online stores sell human livers?

  2. Patricia, OM says

    Is it Friday?!
    I’ve been snowed in so long I don’t even remember what year this is. Waah!

  3. mr-zero says

    Vampire squid are amazing. They can turn themselves inside out to reveal rows of spikes on the outside.

  4. mr-zero says

    Vampire squid are amazing. They can turn themselves inside out to reveal rows of spikes on the outside.

  5. itwasntme says

    This one is my favorite. Whenever we get to another planet, their life-forms will seem mild by comparison.

  6. ThirtyFiveUp says

    I now have Cuttlefish’s book; Santa Claus brought it for me.

    Another happy cephalopod sings this morning.

  7. says

    I am so disappointed by them being small enough to carry around in one’s hands. I want big, nasty, human-eating, flesh-rending vampire squids!

  8. Stygian Lamprey says

    Vampyroteuthis Infernalis

    Literally, Vampire Squid from Hell.

    That’s so effing metal.

  9. says

    Stygian Lamprey wrote:

    Vampyroteuthis Infernalis
    Literally, Vampire Squid from Hell.
    That’s so effing metal.

    Yes… it is effing metal. Vampyroteuthis Infernalis… hmmm, yes, it might be a good name for a heavy metal band or an album.

    By the way, heavy metal was my Christmas gift to the world this year:
    http://normdoering.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-christmas-gift.html

    Click the links for lots of Ozzy, Manson, and NIN.

    And if anyone knows anything new in metal I can find on the web, please drop a link into my blog. I’ve got time to listen to new stuff for the next week. I can’t find new metal on my local radio stations anymore and I don’t know where to go on the web.

    Help if you can.

  10. Jim Thomerson says

    It is OK for you to feel envy. I have actually seen a live vampire squid. It was somewhat the worse for having been captured in a deep sea trawl. I could have touched it, but didn’t. Talk about opportunity missed!

  11. DaveH says

    I love the way that those dark spots up near the fins are bioluminescent spots; fake eyes! Of course, this implies that there’s something down there that’s so balls-out hard that it caused Vampyroteuthis to have to evolve defense mechanisms…… that’s not a creature I want to meet when out swimming

  12. Sven DiMilo says

    What I’ve never known about before are the modified arms that act as retractable “feelers”–in this photo one is visible as the string-like item emerging from the crotch of the two large arms above the eye. Curiouser and curiouser!

  13. Crudely Wrott says

    If you follow the link to TOLweb you will read, under the heading Characteristics,
    “3. Funnel
    a. Funnel valve absent.”

    For an octopodiform, this sounds like a drag.