Half-Squid, Half-Octopus Discovered Off of Hawaii

Otter writes "A unique creature that's been dubbed an 'octosquid' with eight arms and a squid-like mantle, was discovered off Hawaii. The creature, of a previously unknown species, was trapped in the net covering a 3,000 foot-deep intake tube for the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. From the article: 'The octosquid was pulled to the surface, along with three rattail fish and half a dozen satellite jellyfish, and stayed alive for three days. According to War, the lab usually checks its filters once a month, but this time, it put a plankton net in one of the filters and checked it two weeks later. The pitch-black conditions at 3,000 feet below sea level are unfamiliar to most but riveting to scientists who have had the opportunity to submerge. The sea floor is full of loose sediment, big boulders and rocks, and a lot of mucuslike things floating in the water, which are usually specimens that died at the surface and drifted to the bottom.'"

Comments

Half squid, half octopus

[Anonymous Coward]

All delicious!

Re:Half squid, half octopus

[Evanisincontrol]

That's garbage. People who shop at Wal-Mart can't afford sea food.

Re:Half squid, half octopus

[Walt Dismal]

It won't be *labeled* as seafood...

Re:Half squid, half octopus

[Thrip]

I hear that they are armed to the teeth. Worse than that: they're toothed to the arm.

Re:Octosquid is here

[TheMeuge]

Now that octosquid is here, could the OctoParrot be far behind?

Damnit

[Vulva R. Thompson, P]

Kids left the gate open again.

But....

[rune2]

Does it have frickin' lasers?

Woo! I love it!

[erroneus]

Inter-species tentacle porn!!!

Oh, dear.

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

As someone with a deathly fear of squid *and* octopus I have to say that it really feels like Satan and Mother Nature have decided to tag-team together in an all-out effort to make my darkest nightmares become incarnate. Next week they'll find a jellysquidfishapus and I'll end up like one of those H.P. Lovecraft characters who sees the most horrible thing possible and just dies on the spot.

I'll miss you guys.

Re:Oh, dear.

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

*thud*

Re:Oh, dear.

[MadMidnightBomber]

"He wouldn't stop and write 'thud', would he?"
"Maybe he was dictating?"
"Oh, shut up."

Re:Oh, dear.

[argStyopa]

This is drifting off topic, but I looked up that intriguingly-named creature.

The wiki says it was discovered by "German teuthologist Carl Chun"

"teuthologist Carl Chun"?

It took the anagram server about 0.1 seconds to come up with 'Cthulhu great colonist' from that one. So you might want to take those nightmares a little more seriously, mate.

(That or Cthulhu Scrotal Toeing which hints at truly blasphemous levels of hentai...)

8 arms???

[Pedrito]

...with eight arms...

I hate to get into the technobabble nonsense, but I think they're called tentacles (or testicles, if you're a pretty, French foreign-exchange student).

I was really drunk in Hawaii a year ago...

[Octopus]

I remember an underwater nightclub, a squid bachelorette party, lots of dancing, some blow...

Oh shit.

Re:Stupid Name

[Harmonious Botch]

They should call it Cmdr Tako

Re:Octosquid is here

[WeblionX]

Four heads, four tails, and all dead. I'm telling you this octoparrot is no more. It has ceased to be.

Re:Octosquid is here

[jollyreaper]

Now that octosquid is here, could the OctoParrot be far behind? Don't even ask about octopussy. See, I thought that was a fucking brilliant idea when I was a kid, it'd be a cat but with eight fluffy bendy legs that are like tails they can walk on. It would be unusual but cute. And then I found out that pussy was another name for a vagina and the image got a whole lot more terrifying. Even later, I found out about Japanese tentacle monsters and figured this must be what the lady tentacle monsters would look like.