This octopus is all: "I leeve in dee depths of dee oh-ceayns." [covers eyes with ear flaps] "No flash photographies!"
"Pppbbbbbtttthhh!!!"
I must say, this pic has been sent in by beellions of people, so thank you… most recently, "M.R.", courtesy of the NY Times.
See MORE interestin’ pics in this here book: The Deep. Good idea, Steph H.!
bleeny bleeny bleen bleen?
it almost looks like those animals made out of fruit…
anyone know what i’m talking about??
ali – Play With Your Food: http://www.amazon.com/Play-Your-Food-Joost-Elffers/dp/1556706308
i’m not so sure about “cute”.
i’m sure its mother thinks it the cutest thing ever….
Be careful. Theo may eat it.
agree with Ali- looks kinda like a skinned mango or something???
Pixy Misa – YES! Thanks! Doesn’t it look like it though?
Cute! Makes me think of…
“Awwww! You guys made me ink!”
ali:
You took the words right outta my mouth! That’s EXACLTY what I thought!
What the Heck ????? Looks at object cross eyed. Are you sure it’s alive?? really!! are you sure??
An Octapus you say! Hmmmmm.
all right
all right
I don’t think all animals say
“Pppbbbbbtttthhh!!!”
at least some of them don’t
metsakins – yes, this one looks more like it’s saying “blaaaaaaaahhhgh”!
http://www.mbari.org/data/info/grimpo.htm
ooooo! they hover above the sea floor. Okay maybe eet is cute. here is more info for all you budding marine biologists.
And a grownup picture?
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/blueplanet/photo/photo_zoom7.html
I..what…it’s…are you sure that’s an octopus? It looks like those leetle toys in a water dome, you push a button and they dance.
oh … okay … now, that’s just really … weird.
Pikachu! Thundershock!
Adult version is not cute.
I’m glad you posted what it is. I couldn’t have guessed in a thousand years.
Front? Back? Eyes? Just one? Where’s the 8 legs? I dunno, looks like a Pokemon to me.
looks like the lil octopus off of finding nemo
Yup, the bebeh, he looks like fruit art. The adult is kinda cute, what the flappiness and the blue eyes.
I shall call him “Squishy” and he shall be mine, and he shall by my Squishy. ^_^
/I need to watch that movie again…
I am SO going to make an amigurumi of this guy!
ahn. it looks like a shaved pear. i believe those pointy things (only 4 of 8 showing) will be the tentacles. actually, i was being polite. it looks *somewhat* similar to a portion of a man’s anatomy. or maybe, as usual, i just need to get some. :^[
I agree with DKN… “Aw, you guys made me ink!” is right!! One tentacle is shorter than the rest, but you can’t “really” tell! Aw
That is the strangest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Liz — I’m more of a calamari fan. (LIGHTLY fried.)
(With marinara and lemon.)
(mmm.)
“awwww, you guys made me ink!”
mmmm. calimari (whispered quietly)
so, we will have to wait for this thing to grow up to eat it then???
TO me it is making that buzzing whirr sound like humming birds make when they fly past you.
you know the one whirzzzzzzzz..
Yes, you have to wait. This little guy would only produce calimari NUBBINS.
I usually think most anything is cute, but I just can’t “cute-ify” an octopus. Even a behbeh one. Are we SURE this is an octopus and not some other type of sea creature?
Annie…thanks for the link, but I agree wif Kritter – adult version is not cute. Did you look at the rest of the pics? Did you see that clear wormy thing?!? OMG! *home alone face* I won’t say what THAT thing looks like! *ewww….slinks off to wash my eyeballs*
Now Now MusicChick all creatures are beautiful in God’s Eyes.
hehehe
Octopuses (octopi) are TOO cute! Babies and adults. And they’re smart, besides.
That is in fact the back of the octopus, as you can clearly see the tube it uses to funnel water and propel itself. Those little points are the tips of its tentacles; it has skin between its tentacles, so they’re actually much longer than they appear.
I agree with DKN and kate. Totally looks like the pink squid/octo from Finding Nemo. It also looks a little like a PacMan ghost.
I Like Him!!!
Sorta cute in a squishy way, but where’s the Ewwwwwww commenter NOW! This actually has a teenie bit of Ewwwww potential, in a nice way.
It’s Pearl from Finding Nemo!
Octipi ARE the cute…anyone who says otherwise can bite my syphon.
Awwww, squishy!! Soo cute!!
The grown-ups are pretty nifty too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/planetearth/wallpaper/images/wallpaper9_800.jpg
Wellington boots for tentacles!
It’s a — Pokemon!!
I have one of these on my nightstand!!
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90064441
If this image doesn’t turn up in a Fark Photoshop contest very soon, I will lose all faith in teh Intartubez.
Carpe Molluscem, Biggus Mikeus!
I’m not a Farker (but I play one on TV).
/ Welease Woger!
// Welease Bwian!
/// Welease Swashies!
I thought I was somewhat conversant with a good number of non-human things but I sure have never heard of this thing. I think we need a new rule of cuteness: SO UGLY IT’S CUTE!! similar to CUTE OR SAD? but without the sad.
What do you other peeps think? New rule?
Well, there’s not a lot more “cute” here, but if you find this deep sea life as fascinating as I do, check out the website for the book:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/nouvian/nouvian_gallery.html
Have you ever seen Piglet Squid? I posted them before and people thought I was making it up. They are a real species.
http://serpent.eprints.org/view/species/Helicocranchia_sp.html
Check them out.
Piglet squid is awesome!
That piglet squid is anerable!! It looks surprised: “Look at how cute I am!!”
All bebehs are cute by definition! I quote the OED (unabridged — it has no reason to be succinct unless succinct says it all): “Cute = bebeh.”
This guy reminds me of those little rubber guys you used to find in dime stores (when you used to find dime stores) — you’d squeeze him and his ears, eyes, and tongue would pop out…. Remember?
I don’t understand this cute little octopus.
i loves heem (her?)
Cthulhu Pppbbbbbtttthhhagn???
aww its a cthulhu spawn!
Hey, this little guy is cuter than those brainless human tetris blocks.
Where’d this little guy come from? He is so cute.
Fascinating…
Are you sure it’s not a Pokemon?
Yay! Dumbo octopi are some of my favourite animals EVAR!!!
On a related note, did anyone watch the program on Discovery tonight about Humboldt squid? They’re more dangerous than sharks, apparently. Fascinating indeed.
One of them Discovery Channel page critters look like a Triffid.
Weird, but kind of cute.
Here’s one in motion!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4wljKzTGo
The way they swim is completely redunculous!!!!!
How can you say it’s not cute??
McSweeney’s the publisher has a t-shirt with this critter on it.
http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/9793c2cf-93c2-47b3-9267-433f6cafebd4/DumboOctopusTShirt.cfm
Now I have calamari on the brain… But guys, I’m pretty sure calamari is made from squid, not octopus so the little dumbo fella is out. However, I wonder if piglet squid calamari tastes like bacon…
Piglet squids are wonderful! I wonder what kind of sound they would make – maybe a squeaky oink?
Also, they should be called “squiglets” fo sho.
pkeli, you just nearly made me snort my coffee…tastes like bacon…HAHAHAHAH!
I theenk he sort of looks like a very nice hat wheech I would wear with all of thees seasons summer fashyons. He could be a hat, or a brooch, or a pterydactyl…
Kat — Something’s funny? I’m eating squiglet with eggs and toast as we speak. Totally bacon, and it DID make an oinky-squeak…
The adult is a bit creepy looking. But the baby is pretty cute, for an octopus.
I saw that special on Humbolt (sp?0 squid. They are really nifty the way they change colors.
Here’s another pic of the piglet squid. It looks like it’s smiling!
http://www.cabrilloaq.org/piglet.html
Another squid that is really cute is called a Pyjama Squid; it’s black and white striped! I don’t have pic, but google it and you’ll see what I mean…
I’m at sea here.
There’s a eye.
And (?) a beak.
Weird.
But cute.
AlbertaGirl, i believe that piglet squid is of the rarer subspecies Rastafarian BobMarleyexus varietay.
Okay I am an uneducated sort I guess. I thought squids and octopi were the same genis. Obviously I need to go to marine biology school.
Weird, but SO cute….like a little baby alien thingamabob….
Can’t be an octopus. Octopi don’t have visible ears, and their mouths are located on the underside, in the center of the tentacles. It’s cute, but is in no way an octopus.
OMFG i can’t tell wether or not that’s creepy!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! He looks like a little alien blob!
Annie — they’re all mollusks, and more specifically, cephalopods. That’s their taxonomic Phylum and Class, respectively; the classifications for octopi and various squids split away from each other after that.
The categories of taxonomy go like this (descending order, largest group to smallest):
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
(mnemonic: “Kings Play Chess On Fuzzy Green Squares”)
So, they’re not *too* closely related, but you *can* get both at a decent sushi counter.
Yummm. I love Calamari.
Thanks Theo.
I love the mnemonic.
It is all so much more complicated than you think when you look on the surface.
When I went looking briefly last night there was a whole argument about how many suckers are on the arms/tenticles and the placement of the suckers.
That article didn’t go into the family genus or kingdom. Aparently it was too much for the reporter.
The only trouble with looking stuff up on line is most of the stuff you find is not very complete and sometimes incorrect.
Pffft. Any way thanks for the science lesson.
“It is all so much more complicated than you think when you look on the surface.”
yep, the ocean’s funny that way
Pac-Man, you are so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o TOAST!
LOL Anom4… watch out for the wasabi and pickled-ginger power pellets, though…
It can be cute:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70093476@N00/142470132/
PIKACHU ^..^