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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.'"
All delicious!
There have been 8 armed squid described before including the Taningia danae species by the same scientists, though our understanding of these animals is poor at best. Though I have to say I am puzzled as to why the Octosquid was assigned to the Mastigoteuthidae genus other than it seems to be a catchall genus for weird squid species that we do not know much about...
Oh and hey Otter! What's up dude? I actually had no idea these guys were in Kona. Had that been known, I would have visited last time I was there.
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Now that octosquid is here, could the OctoParrot be far behind?
It all looks the same in the dark.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
That way, scientists will be able to patent valuable genes in our half-squid/half-octopus brethern, as opposed to killing them to protect their trade secrets
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They have been calling it an OctoSquid. I have to say, I dislike that. I would prefer that they call it a Squidopus!
Also, it looks a lot like a weird Japanese sex toy.
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Kids left the gate open again.
Quick! Poke it with a stick!
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oops.
to call it the 'Squidpus'
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Does it have frickin' lasers?
Inter-species tentacle porn!!!
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This is not "half squid, half octopus". This is a squid with eight arms that is no more related to octopuses than any other sort of squid.
Squids and octopuses are far too far apart to breed.
The cake is a pie
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.
I just wanna know, how does it taste!? I can't wait to try me some octomari!! Or is it calapus?
Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in biological life, for that is how you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, biological creatures such as these will affect you as a creature.
You are interested in the unknown... the mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you, the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony, of the miserable souls, who survived this terrifying ordeal.
The incidents, the places. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty. Let us reward the innocent. My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts of octosquids from the deep ocean?
Here's another article with a more close-up photo. Does anybody else hear a slithering voice saying "The Stars Are Right" when you look into its ever-so-hypnotic eye?
This has got to be the worst nightmare of every sexy, busty teenage green- or pink-haired schoolgirl, ninja, and swordswoman in Japan!
GMD
watch this
ALL COP!
From TFA,
"We have one starfish-like creature that we can't even get the phylum (a primary division in the animal kingdom)," he said. "We've just labeled it 'animal.'"
TFA fails to explain a curious trait of deep-sea beasties like this. They're red because in very low light conditions, red appears black - good camouflage in an inky abyss. Red pigment is much easier for creatures to synthesize than black.
Half octopus, half squid, half man. I'm so serial!
...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).
Squid Chick #1: You gotta watch out for those octopus guys.
... hey!
SQ #2: Yeah, I hear they have hands like an octo
I for one welcome these harbingers of our dark master from beyond!
Why can't we just leave species to evolve in peace? Every time something mutates and potentially a new species is created, someone kidnaps the new creature and slices it up.
I remember an underwater nightclub, a squid bachelorette party, lots of dancing, some blow...
Oh shit.
They're already here--parrots have squid-like beaks.
This ain't rocket surgery.
Lighten up, Francis.
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was there a kitchen sponge living in a pineapple found nearby?
Serenity now, insanity later.
Arms and tentacles are technically different things. An Octopus has 8 "arms." A squid has 8 "arms" + 2 "tentacles" (longer than arms) for a total of 10 appendages. This speciment was found with only 8 arms, like an octopus (instead of the 8 arms + 2 tentacles arrangement of most sqiuds), but with the mantel of a squid (which octopi lack).
So arms and tentacles are not interchangeble references.
I found all this from a simple google of the differnces between squids and octopi. You might want to do the same before attempting to correct your fellow slashdotters with mistaken information.
And no it does not run Linux, even though is has base 8.
And it would sure fuck with the iphone's multi-touch interface.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
...Just sounds better.
Who else thinks the name should be CaliSquishy?
Wouldn't that be a Squarrot, though?
I call baby Architeuthidae! Really small one. Test it for ammonia....
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Four heads, four tails, and all dead. I'm telling you this octoparrot is no more. It has ceased to be.
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Sell the spice to CHOAM
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poor creature, just discovered and going directly into the red book. what if they caught the last of it's species?
Blame It On Cthulhu...
It's a good thing there aren't any dangerous natural formations or circumstances outside of human intervention. It would be a shame to see a hybrid squidtopus not live forever. I hate how human beings have the audacity to interfere with the natural cycle of underwater creatuares eating each other by providing other avenues for them to die occasionally.
Without pictures, this "octosquid" is about as real as that perpetual motion device.
Save Squidward!
The article would be of more use if it told what octopus features it had and what squid features it had. Other than suction cups, I don't really know the difference.
Curiously, octopuses, squid, snails, nautaluses, cuttlefish, and slugs all belong to the same phylum of animals, suggesting that they share a common ancestor.
Table-ized A.I.
I interpret this as a species of octopus moving to an environmental niche in which the squid already trhives.
Unsurprisingly it develops similar characteristics that makes it more fit for survival.
Darwin would be thrilled me thinks.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
So what is the cause of death when they find one of these things and it dies days later? Is it pressure sickness? Extreme shock?
A humbug?
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No octoparrot yet, but the intrepid scientists at Oscar Mayer have discovered the reclusive Octodog.
Sashimi
welcome our lightly-battered overlords!
> the specimen tentatively belongs to the genus Mastigoteuthis,
Mr Mstigoteuthis, I don't care how clever you are, you can at least wait until you know what it is before claiming you own it, tentatically or otherwise.
Max.
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Actually it's "Iä! Iä!" you dumb homophobe.
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Very nicely put together!
"I'm octosquid, and you're squidopus. You're squidy little eight shoes!"
"Squid, octopus... I'm the one with the spear-gun."
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I have prior art, dangit..
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Imagine the next version of LastMeasure...
PenisSquid.
Yuck!
LK
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Isn't all tentacle porn inter-species? Or are there actually some sick fucks in this world who actually like watching tentacle monsters raping other tentacle monsters?
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The Kraken is mutating in its ancient war with the narwhal. Will we see the narwhal hybrid with humans, into some kind of "manwhal", a mammal version of the mermaid? Or maybe a narfish, enlisting fish species before the Kraken snaps them up, and hauls us all down the maelstrom?
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...welcome our new half-squid-half-octopus overlords.
Homophobe? Were you replying to someone else's post? This is an HP Lovecraft reference... and a darn good one. Like your anagrams, though.
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