The cephalopod with the most impressively Goth name ever — Vampyroteuthis infernalis — turns out to be all show and no fangs.
It still looks awesome.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
The cephalopod with the most impressively Goth name ever — Vampyroteuthis infernalis — turns out to be all show and no fangs.
It still looks awesome.
Wow! A most impressive display, and they look good inside out, too.
I like its eyes.
On the FtB main page, my eyes keep skimming over this and thinking it says “Detroitovore”. Ew….
Few predators, abundant food. Life doesn’t get much better for a marine invertebrate
Sorry to interrupt but the ban on same sex marriage in Utah was just struck down, and one couple (at least) has live-tweeted their getting their marriage license… the DA tried to stop them, pulled one aside, but they showed the license and a photo of them as a married couple.
UTAH.
Nire here:
https://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/12/20/3097821/hour-federal-judge-struck-utahs-sex-marriage-couple-married-documented-twitter/
(er. more. Sorry.)
Throughout, I could only think “They spelled Minbari wrong!”
[there are 2 open threads for stuff like that, y’know]
still is awesome!
super-low metabolic rate? subsisting on manna from heaven?
totally cool.
I misread “infernalis” as “internalis” and thought “oh, cripey, I sure hope I never get an infestation of those things.”
Fortunately, my innards wouldn’t feed a detroitovore: no abandoned houses or factories within me.