The Octosquid Has Arrived

by Scott Beale on July 5, 2007 · 17 comments

Octosquid

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!

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1 Chris July 5, 2007 at 2:58 pm

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.

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2 Lenny July 6, 2007 at 9:38 am

Its a KRAKEN!!! Run!!!

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3 Sam July 6, 2007 at 10:29 am

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.

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4 Dave Oshel July 6, 2007 at 3:31 pm

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.

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5 Daniel July 6, 2007 at 9:39 pm

Squid or Cutllefish

In my opinion this squid image is really laughing as us. Its a cuttle fish.

Here is another cuttlefish for comparsion

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6 John Barker July 7, 2007 at 5:48 am

Leg is very upset ! We want to keep the Octupuses pure

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7 Brian July 8, 2007 at 9:31 am

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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