At long last, we now have the best of both worlds. Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to the octosquid, a wonderful cephalopod mashup.
UPDATE: The Good Reverend has informed us that KPUA is reporting that the octosquid was in reality just a rare type of squid that had lost it’s two tentacles.
Thanks to Jackson West for the tip!
photo credit: Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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We should worry about its intelligence! Octopi are extremely intelligent, as are squid and other cephalopods… so I imagine our new octosquid may take over the world shortly.
Its a KRAKEN!!! Run!!!
A scientist refers to it as a squid in one the Star-Bulletin article. I wonder what makes him think it’s a squid with eight tentacles, and not an octopus with a squid-like mantle.
Obviously, a SQUID, not an OCTOPOD. Check the DNA if you’re really uncertain about this one. Sadistic cladisticians WILL call this a squid, for the same reason that bug scientists call ants wasps. They are, with or without the drama.
Squid or Cutllefish
In my opinion this squid image is really laughing as us. Its a cuttle fish.
Here is another cuttlefish for comparsion
Leg is very upset ! We want to keep the Octupuses pure
It’s been identified as a specimen, which happens to have lost two arms, of a rare but known species of squid.
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